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.

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

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

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

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.

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