I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

So many people mistakenly think that the rest of his [John Cassavetes] pictures and the ones we did were improvised, which isn't true. He wrote all the rest of them.

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

I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

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

John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone who wanted to come could just come. So he came, and I can't remember the name of the play, of course, it was a long time ago.