The lack of work destroys people.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.