It took me getting to my 50s before I could say "Whatever!" about other people's criticism, especially when it's not true.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.

I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.