Life is not what you expected it to be.

You can't always be a leading lady.

Growing up takes longer than you think.

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

I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.

If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for you, you could look up. It's the most dramatic thing in the world because it's intimate, it's suggestive, and that's one of the problems with giving it up, is that it's a very useful tool.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.