Actress

I am very musical. Am I a great singer? No. But I'm extremely musical.

And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really does that.

I loved 'Dexter.' I loved the writing of 'Dexter.' I thought that was a brilliant show, and Michael C. Hall was just brilliant.

I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

In order for me to have fun, I have to be able to not be buttoned down.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

When you're with a bunch of loud 20-year-olds, if you're on a movie and everybody is a lot younger than you and they want you to go to a club, I'm not very comfortable in that situation. I've been on movies when everybody goes out to some loud place. I don't know; I'm not comfortable.

I got my first professional job at Harvard, at the Loeb Drama Center, and I remember sitting on campus one day under a tree - I was doing 'Threepenny Opera.' I was reading a book, and the light caught me, and I thought, 'I want to be in the movies.'

I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.

If you need things, you work harder to get them.

I've always learned in show business: you take the job.

I am just so grateful for every single day, and if I could just not think past today, I would be living the life that I think God meant me to live.

I honestly never turn on the television if I'm alone.

Wine has class. I love wine. The drier, the better. But beer? I just can't do it.

I've been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I'm very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.

TV is the only thing that's really alive, because it's happening as you go. You don't know the end, so another day brings a new life to it. Unlike a play, unlike a movie, where you know the beginning, middle, and end.

Texas people are very open, because it's open.

I did a lot of commercials starting in about '75, yeah. Well, not 'a lot'; I never was a big old commercial gal, but I made a good living. I didn't immediately make 'a living' at commercials; the first year I made maybe a living was about '80. I had a great year in '85. I had a nice little supplement.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, just keep hiring me.