I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you.

I've had such an odd career.

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

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

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

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.