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

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.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

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

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

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

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.