Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.

I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.

Change is never easy.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

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.