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

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

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].

I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something -- and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and... they come back on television, those movies... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!