Grace Zabriskie

Grew up in the French Quarter of New Orleans where her father started Lafitte's, a well-known café and bar on Bourbon Street, frequented by such prolific personalities as Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work. Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.