all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.

A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

When I was in Middle of The Night, MGM came and offered me a contract and I said that when I got out of the play, I'd like to try it. I didn't know anything about making movies but I was certainly finding it interesting.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

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