Banana Splits for Breakfast. I think I ate about five.

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

When I started out in independent films in the early 70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.