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.

Because John Cassavetes was so terrific in live TV, a lot of his friends had not been able to participate in that yet and so they asked if he would gather with them at night when I was at the play and tell them what live TV was like, what you had to adjust to because it was its own medium - it had many things you had to be aware of.

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.

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.

He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.

After you play a part, you think of it as your own.