The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you're playing somebody's mother - and there aren't even a lot of those roles!

Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.

I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.