Part of the beauty of being this age is that it doesn’t feel like it’s for ever. You can be overwhelmed, or you can go. - Mary Steenburgen

A lot of people misunderstood why I was doing what I was doing, or even what I was doing. Then other people were actually kind of pissed off about it. Or they were worried I was going to make a fool of myself that it was somehow undignified or just weird.

I'm nicer than I am. Like most people I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on people tend not to guess that.

I think it causes the business to probably take you a little more seriously and to believe in you more. That’s a meaningful thing to me. This is something I’ve now done for 45 years. I treasure every single day that I’m on a set. I think anyone who’s worked with me would agree that I’m not bored or jaded or any of those things. For me, it’s still an utter privilege to do this for a living. I never forget that for a second.