Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor.

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.