“I keep getting offered these women-with-a-disease things.” — Geraldine Page Quote

I keep getting offered these women-with-a-disease things.

I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.

If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no matter what its size. And if I think I can't do something with a part, I won't take it.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

In 'Summer and Smoke,' I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.

You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

I've become one of those actors who find it difficult to say 'no' when things are offered.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

'The House Of Tomorrow' offered such a fantastic script. I couldn't believe that script - it was just so original and unique.