I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.