I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.