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.

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

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

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

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

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

John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said, "Great, let's read it." I read it and I said, "John, I couldn't do this every night and twice on Wednesday and Saturday".