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" Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it. "
Acting
Really
Only
" Actors are very generous. "
Very
Generous
" Being a grandmother is probably the most important thing to me. I have two really rambunctious little ones, and I love spending time with them. "
Love
Important
Time
" For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored. "
I Can
Energy
Feel
" I am always happiest in an ensemble. "
Am
Happiest
I Am
" I feel a little guilty only being an actor. "
Being
Only
Little
" I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world. "
Feel
Children
World
" I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too. "
Live
Place
Perfect
" I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. "
Night
Loved
Dream
" I loved the first Christmas I had in England. "
Had
Christmas
England
" I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone. "
Me
Independent
Break
" I think I have a lot of crazy layers. "
Layers
Crazy
I Think
" I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There. "
Time
Favorite
He
" I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me. "
I Can
Women
Try
" It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays. "
High
Acting
First
" I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician. "
Work
Respect
Music
" I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job. "
New York
Me
Lucky
" I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it. "
Trying
Home
Business
" I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it. "
Children
Generation
Think
" Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air. "
Yourself
Walking
Experience
" Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way. "
Acting
Way
Maybe
" Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy. "
Time
Sweet
Children
" My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff. "
Theory
You
Find
" Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters. "
Sometimes
Voice
You
" Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes. "
Work Hard
Back
Energy
" You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours. "
Energy
You
Night
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