My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

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

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.

Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future.

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

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

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.