I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

Patience was not my strong point.

I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

The early romance was the most romantic experience I have ever had in my life - far surpassing anything I might've dreamed of or imagined, it was quite amazing. When you are young and it's your first love and you are just carried away by it and that's all you can think about.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'