Blythe Danner

My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I could do was harmonize, like, a third above, and at two years old, she'd be doing sixths. I said, 'Where in the world did that come from?' She'd just make up songs. ”

I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows. ”

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job. ”

For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored. ”

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me. ”

I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone. ”

Whatever comes my way I'm basically interested in. ”

Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great. ”

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way. ”

I feel a little guilty only being an actor. ”