My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I’d rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I’m kind of boring.

When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn’t seem hard.

I’ve been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn’t care.

Waitressing – by far the worst job ever created.

I know that in order to be considered successful, you’re supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

Ultimately, you know, I’m a grown-up, I’ve been in this business a long time. I’ve got kids. I’ve got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring...

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

I have a terrible time giving interviews, it’s so much more a sensitive issue for me because I am so protective of Lisa Marie and of her father.

I think I’m learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven’t always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence...

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they’re trying to pull one over on you they’re so transparent. Like men.

Men are very competent in their workplace – and this is going to sound sexist – women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren’t aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that’s inhabited. It would...

I’d have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.

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

I’ve always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother!...

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

We’ve stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven’t let the success thing go to our head.

I’m gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color – it’s an old lady color.

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened....

I make fun wherever I go… If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It’s part...

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Since my illness, I’ve felt the presence of my angels.

You never know what motivates you.

Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that...

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they’d cut that in and add it.

If you’re 40 years old and you’ve never had a failure, you’ve been deprived.

Theater is not to make a living, so I don’t have the money pressure.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be...

I’m a practicing Christian – and I’m going to keep practicing till I get it right – but I don’t feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right...

It’s supposed to be entertainment. It’s not supposed to be a documentary.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of...

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would...

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

I testified in front of a Congressional subcommittee when we were searching for additional money for research. I was a bit apprehensive.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that’s possible. If he’d have me.

I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It’s kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank...

I don’t see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

A man’s illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you’re doing drama.

I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.