Dianne Wiest

“I had to make a living. I had been in a psychiatric hospital. I was a single mother of two.”

“I've never done a play where I feel like I've gotten it right.”

“It's not as if I'm never going to work again. I'm not penniless. I'm not a kid, you know. I'm a grownup. It's just a fallow period.”

“I love the stage. I'm a stage actress.”

“I just want to work with good people. That's all I want to do.”

“I was told that I was not an ingenue, I was not a leading lady, and I would always be a character actress. I took that to heart.”

“I think that my career is a testament to the fact that you can get a lot of work as a voluptuous, overweight, middle-aged woman.”

“The truth is, after 'Bullets Over Broadway,' it was a year before I got a job.”

“I'm a theater person. It's what I've been doing since I was 15, and I love it. I can't imagine not doing it.”

“For an actor, it's a terrible thing to be typecast.”

“I don't find my life that interesting. I find other people's lives interesting.”

“I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it's not going to be a popular thing to say, but I've always felt that; I've never felt that I was a natural.”