One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

If I'm too strong for some people that's their problem.

Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.