When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

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 think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.

Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.

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