I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker… but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I’m pretty instinctive. I’m a quick learner.

I was thrilled with the nomination, but I didn’t want to go to the ceremony. I hated the idea of sitting there smiling and not winning.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Yes, I do get recognized in public. It’s pretty nice.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.

I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I’ve never gotten so many work offers. It’s so exciting, this feeling of a...

I’m just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie,he was worth his weight in gold.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

I was willing to check out what was happening in the world of feature films and primetime television. I had gotten new pictures made.

One man is not enough.

I don’t know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I’m just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

It was so satisfying for me-a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

It’s hard to know really how it’s going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there’s a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

Jean’s whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

People are always asking me what it’s like to be Judy Garland’s daughter. It’s hard to be a legend’s child.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it’s also very addictive.

The only bad thing is that I’ve been smoking cigarettes. I smoke in the play, so I’ve limited myself to smoking only in the theater.

It’s part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn’s disease.

I’m pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I’m more conservative on.

A lot of time I was acting to nobody.

I’m still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get...

Being someone I’m not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else’s skin.

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can’t even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife’s dream, to be an actress part-time.

I’ve always been able to let stuff go when I’m done with work.

I’ve come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It’s genetic.

At times he could be very critical. He didn’t like prints on me. He didn’t like stripes. He didn’t like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.

I welcome turning 30 because I like approaching the beginning of something instead of the end. I’m at a really good place and feel grounded.

Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it’s natural to show them being idiots at home.

You don’t forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I’m not for gratuitous nudity, but if there’s humor, I don’t have a problem.