There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.
Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.
I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.
If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.
When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.
Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.
There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
