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

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

The people who stand on the sidelines and criticize aren't actually in the arena, spilling their blood.

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.

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.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter