If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.