When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.