Not hippie – my parents were not hippies – but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

If you didn’t know that I am an actress, I don’t think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She’s 16, so of...

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

I optioned a book and we got the script written, and he wants to direct it. It’s a very dark movie so we’ll see if it gets made.

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

I wanted to leave the show and I didn’t want to come back. So the writers asked me if they could kill off my character and I agreed.

You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn’t the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up.

When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human...

I’ve always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

The sexy moments for me, I wasn’t thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character’s development in the movie, so...

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

Had that casting director not called me back, had those producers not liked me or those directors… everything happened for a reason.

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

There’s a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I was this weird little bookish giant.

It’s important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they’re pretty.

A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It’s so stimulating. I...

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It’s a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.

No, I’m not! I’m not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That’s not true! I’m not a tomboy!

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

I always admired good writing and read everything that came out. When I was married to John Monk Saunders, he read everything, too.

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you’re never really afraid for her because you know she’s not going to die.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

But also, it’s a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective – the more screwed up, the better.

We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

I was being honest – I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

My sister at the time was 13 and so I did the show as a birthday present. The start date of the show was her birthday. Talk about karma.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

But I’m not objective when I’m acting.

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.

We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I’m coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren’t working I would just sit on those folding chairs.

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a...

I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

It’s not that I don’t see myself as hot and sexy. Don’t get me wrong. No, it’s not that.