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.

Being old is such a treat!

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

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.