A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things. My daughter's a writer, and she's a quality writer.

You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.

I'm very strict with myself. I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself.

I guess a lot of things happen still.

I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.

You probably only know what you've read [about Marilyn Monroe].You didn't know her. The people who talk about her didn't know her either.