Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

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

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

You know, people really don't understand what actors 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 I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

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.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.