It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

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

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

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

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

I came from a real working-class show business family.