You know when you get to my age, it's nice to be intact. Physically surviving is important. - Olympia Dukakis

I feel the audience is very much there, It’s a big thing — to let an audience in, let them affect and move you.

I don’t know, you get old enough and your hair gets white and somebody notices and they give you a star.

It took my family a long time to realize that something was wrong. My brother and I were in complete denial; we loved our mother so much and we didn’t want to admit that her health was deteriorating.