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.

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.

I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

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'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

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

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.