The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

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

The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.