If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV.

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.