Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.