To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.