I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient