Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Sweat makes good friendship cement.

I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.

If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.