There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.

My film career was always to support my theater career.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady.

A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.

It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

I'm a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I've done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I'm the hottest thing going.

I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.

What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it's got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When I'm down, I might find something that I haven't worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

I'm very grateful that 'Beale Street' was that opportunity for me to be introduced to the industry in that way and have some doors open for me.

I don't want to be put into a box.

I left before I had the opportunity to pursue work more widely in Chicago.

Fashion is another opportunity for me to break through boundaries and to be seen wearing things.

I'm not extra, I'm not going to be the person walking around the house in an extravagant gown during quarantine.

I want to push the boundaries on the roles that have historically been given to actresses who look like me. There is so much more we can do. There always has been.