Both My Parents Were Actors. I Was

A Critic Never Fights The Battle; They Just Go Around Shooting The Wounded.

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'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.

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 Was Raised To Be In Service To Something Larger Than Myself. A Lot Of Actors Concentrate On What They Will Get Out Of The Profession, Rather Than What They Can Offer It. The Way I See It, If You Come With Something To Offer, You Can Offer It Forever.