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.

[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.

John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone who wanted to come could just come. So he came, and I can't remember the name of the play, of course, it was a long time ago.

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

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

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

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.