The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.

I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

I'm addicted to routine. I don't know if that's because I moved around so much as child - by the time I was 12 years old, I had lived in about 10 different places. But I like going to the theater at a certain time.

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.