One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I. Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.
I really love being a character actor.
My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.
People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.
I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.
It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.
I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.
I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off. 'No,' said a peasant to me, 'do not be afraid, and do not touch them. They will not sting you at all, if you touch them they will bite you. ' I trusted him; not one bit me. Trust me; do not fear these temptations. Do not touch them; they will not hurt you.
I’ve always been about style for people, not ‘You’re going to wear this outfit,’. . . It was the way you put yourself together and the imagination, not buying this number off the rack, but the way you wear it
My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox. " So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.