I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.