After you play a part, you think of it as your own.

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room next door. It just...started.