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

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 MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

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 grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

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.