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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."

"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."

"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."
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"There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy."

"I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

"My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me."

"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts."

"I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do."

"You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present."

"But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole."
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