For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.
I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that.
When I was beginning, a young actor could go from repertory company to repertory company. I did that and loved it. I was also lucky.
I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.
I am always happiest in an ensemble.
That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.
My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I'm saying at this moment. I don't know. It's not something I'm obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.
I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.
I don't give my advice unless it's asked for.
My husband was very special and very funny and outspoken, and he would have a black and blue every so often because under the table, I'd say, 'Don't say that!'
Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.
I loved the first Christmas I had in England.
I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.
My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows.
I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.
It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.
Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
