Family is the best thing I’ve ever had. My family is my life. There’s something primitive in your feeling about family, - Maureen Stapleton

You have to know the insane odds, but you have to have the energy to buck them. You don't know if you're going to get a job anyway, so why give yourself the extra added handicap of dying if you don't play St. Joan?

I want to thank Troy, N.Y. … and everybody I ever met in my entire life.

There are many roads to good acting, I've been asked repeatedly what the key to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.