One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived

The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.

As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.