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.

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.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

Fear is where the information is.

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

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