I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

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

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

They will only care when you're gone.