The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

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.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.