Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.
You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.
I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.
I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.
I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.
I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
I think I have a lot of crazy layers.
I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Actors are very generous.
Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.
Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I could do was harmonize, like, a third above, and at two years old, she'd be doing sixths. I said, 'Where in the world did that come from?' She'd just make up songs.
Being a grandmother is probably the most important thing to me. I have two really rambunctious little ones, and I love spending time with them.
You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.
I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.
Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
I feel a little guilty only being an actor.
Whatever comes my way I'm basically interested in.
