I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.