JoBeth Williams Quotes

"I live in a town where if you`re a woman over 40, you`re really passé. In the movies a Sean Connery can get Catherine Zeta-Jones as a love interest. But Shirley MacLaine can`t have Billy Crudup as a boyfriend."

"Now that I`m directing is where I`ve felt how difficult it is. Out of 200 or so movies made last year, only seven were directed by women. There`s been an enormous leap of women producers and heads of studios, but strangely enough, those women haven`t given other women a boost. It`s very frustrating."

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

Larry Kasdan wanted us all there, all the time, even if we weren`t filming.

I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the.

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

I think there`s a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.