Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

Old age ain't for sissies

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.