'Widow' is a word I never thought would describe me, but I had to learn to deal with that.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.

You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.