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I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.