I always wanted to be a great actor.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.