John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and all the rest of the Shadows cast came out to California and they finished it off and he cut it. He turned the garage into an editing room and he was by then a director of Shadows. That's the only thing he'd directed. But, he loved it.

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.

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

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

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

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."

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.