The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.

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

We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

[Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.