“I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.” — Joan Allen Quote

“I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.”

“I had gone through a mother having dementia in the last couple of years of her life. She was in a nursing facility in my little hometown area of northern Illinois, so I got to see a lot of other patients there in various stages of the disease. I had a firsthand exposure to it in a pretty big way.”

“I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.”

“In a situation like the Rumble, I'm looking around constantly and keeping my back against a rope as much as possible so I can see what's going on.”

“I remember having a conversation with my sister, saying, 'What if I don't make it? What if I'm still waiting tables when I'm 35?' I was just at the end of my rope. But I've been at the end of that rope several times.”

“The political, the economic, the social are tied together like the strands of a rope. The social and economic, if they are firm, tend to strengthen the other.”