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

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks