Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

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

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

Because John Cassavetes was so terrific in live TV, a lot of his friends had not been able to participate in that yet and so they asked if he would gather with them at night when I was at the play and tell them what live TV was like, what you had to adjust to because it was its own medium - it had many things you had to be aware of.

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

I only watch my movies that I make once, so I can just see how it hangs together, but after that, I don't watch them again. A lot of people have disappeared from Earth that you've worked with, and they make me sort of sad once in a while, and there's really no necessity for me to watch them. I've made them, and it's on film and that's that.

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