I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

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