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

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.

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

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.

[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.

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

So after the Shadows he acted and directed. And it worked out very nicely. And he wrote, obviously.