Occupation: Theatre Actress Birth: May 25, 1947
I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'.
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'..
It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what you've decided….
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices..
Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to si….
I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin..
I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a mat….
I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters..
I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that..
I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do..
It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think….
I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain..
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight..
I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'.
To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, genero….
I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any p….
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work bett….
I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back..
I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different..
I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little gro….
When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's wh….