The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.