My mother’s life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

It’s fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It’s a whole different way of acting because you’re not depending on the words at...

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

Since I had the baby I can’t tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn’t need to. I would peek,...

The story line was done in a way that’s organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that’s authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she...

It’s just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.

There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn’t get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you...

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that’s definitely a challenge.

I’m not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.

If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel.

I’m not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it’s because they’re a mess underneath.

Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character’s persona and being. And that just couldn’t...

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

I don’t want to be someone’s entertainment.

I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don’t see very often in the press.

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.

A person’s portrayal on TV isn’t always how someone is.

When you’re a woman in your 40s, it’s not the best time to do films, because there really aren’t that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

I’m no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don’t get...

I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

You’re better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn’t wanna wander from the stable at night.

I don’t see myself being an actress forever.

We don’t really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.

I’d rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That’s perfect for me.

Without Police Woman I wouldn’t have had a career. The show started about the same time the women’s movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It...

Everybody’s a new personality, bringing their own little funny bone or take on life. You know, they’re funny in their own way, each in his own way.

Doorman – a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

There are many other pediatric eye diseases as well that, if they are detected early, are preventable. Not one child should lose their eyesight.

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It’s really funny the way that some people don’t give kids enough credit for...

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

We have to support our own films. If we don’t, how can we expect others to support them?

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That’s the same as advice, isn’t it?

When it was over my daughter said, ‘Oh, I felt so sorry for him – he didn’t want to hurt you, he liked you.’ That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top...

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

I like shopping, and I like to drive.

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

I can’t wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn’t the first consideration.

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you’re going to say it.

I’ve been careful to keep my life separate because it’s important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I’m worth...

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It’s really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But...