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.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

Fear is where the information is.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.