You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.
I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian actress - because my son was completely crazy about 'Star Wars.'
I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.
Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well.
I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?
