Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.