[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.