I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

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.

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

You can't always be a leading lady.

My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate human beings with high standards-whom I completely and unequivocally adore-don't always agree with-but always admire and respect. They all have wit and a sense of humor and, thank God, I have hung on to mine.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.