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.

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

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.

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

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