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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.