Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

When I was in college, I was an English major, but I was part of this great group at Stanford called the Company. We didn't know any better, so we did it all; we did King Lear, we did Hamlet, new plays ... And we did it all in a covered wagon that we took around the Bay Area. We all put our makeup on in one cracked mirror. It was the most fun I've ever had.

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel quite sick that they have to caricature older women in such a negative way.

I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.