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

Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.

The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.

Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.