I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

I was shaking all over. I didn’t like it and I felt that way when we shot the sequences, but I thought my character felt that way.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren’t taking it as seriously as I did.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.

I’ve never been an actor who goes and really gets off on being nuts and never gets out of it. There would be times when I would be crying for hours and hours and hours,...

I’m so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I’ve always been a real physical person.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That’s like fighting with ghosts.

I’ve never had my heart broken.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have...

If I hadn’t fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.

Change is never easy.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don’t have anything to do with my nose.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I’m an actor, that’s all. I just do what I do ....

Goldie is like a neon light and I am not.

There was really a snobbery from people in film – they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

I can’t deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

When you’re old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

My agent said, ‘You aren’t good enough for movies.’ I said, ‘You’re fired.’

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

But there isn’t any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It’s there. I’m already whole.

I think that’s very sad, that I haven’t allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

It’s put … together into a cohesive, chronological line of events.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

I’ve never held a gun. I’ve never shot a gun. I don’t ever want to do it again.