While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two