Shirley Knight
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"Shirley Knight Hopkins" is an American stage, film, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth (film)/Sweet Bird of Youth, eight times for Emmy Awards (winning three), and has also netted a Golden Globe and Volpi Cup/Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the 1967 film Dutchman (film)/Dutchman.

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I don't think you want her around too often, she kind of takes over.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

It's so much fun! ... It was very nice of Mr. Cherry [Marc, who created the show] to write that part for me.

The play is about this woman finding a way to live without having someone to look after her.

I know that Marcia desperately wants me to come back. We were devising all kinds of scenarios together, like Bree breaks her leg and I would look after her and that would drive her insane.

Everyone has someone in their family who has a drinking problem. I think that's inevitable. Everybody quarrels in a family, and they don't speak to each other for months or years. It's usually always over some little thing. But it really isn't about some little thing, it's about something much deeper.