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Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

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I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

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I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.

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I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

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I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

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My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

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What I like is the acting itself. But I'm a lousy celebrity. I'm not interested in selling my private life. I take my private feelings to the work, but I want there to be a difference between me and whoever it is I'm playing.

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When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw those laws go down one at a time.

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I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

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I wish it was possible to do the work and not have to talk about it, but it is traditional in the theater to go into the village square and bang the drum and say, 'Come see this show, come see this show.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: February 21st, 1946

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