On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

I don't feel competitive.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

You can't take a crash course in serenity.