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.

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

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.