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

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

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.

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

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.