Maureen Stapleton

"A houseboat is my speed, I’m usually frightened in anything that moves. A rougher than expected trip up the Hudson with friends this summer, scared the hell out of me. But I still haven’t learned how to stop it."

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

"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."

"I figure you're a successful actress only when you don't have to work."

"Not nearly as exciting as it would be if I were acknowledged as one of the greatest lays in the world."

"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."

"Cast throughout her career in supporting roles, Stapleton was content not playing a lead character, I don't think she ever had unrealistic aspirations about her career."