Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.

I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.