I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.
People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.
I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
How do people who live utterly alone survive? There are so many things that won't open. I've got a few dresses in New York, and I can somehow get them on, but I can't get them off.
If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
I love being with someone, taking care of someone.
I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.
