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.

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.

There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women in film, be they behind the camera or in front of the camera, and it's pretty nauseous-making. It always has been.

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

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

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.