I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

I really like cable T.V.

I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.