Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it’s with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.