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

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

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

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.

It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."

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 think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.