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...

Having an education is invaluable.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved...

If my mom reads that I’m grammatically incorrect I’ll have hell to pay.

I don’t think I’ll ever be a producer who’s into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don’t like that part. I’m much more interested in the material.

I can’t get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

But I’ve always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn’t be played past a certain age.

I like somebody who makes me laugh. He’s also got to be prepared – I’m sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me...

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those...

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I plays Joe’s best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don’t get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

The point of our demographics is that we’re not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we’re not going to have the population.

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

It’s rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that’s so fascinating to me.

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You’d use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of...

Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.

Anybody can say she’s an actress. It’s another thing to get a job.

I haven’t tucked a sock in my pants for three years.

I’ve gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

I think because I’ve maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

I think it’s a mother’s dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious...

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

Life will force ou to make changes you never wanted to make.

I was born in a blender.

It’s not really my kind of personality, yoga, but we do a half hour and I’m totally relaxed. I’ve been working out, so I feel big, good, and strong.

In their 30s women really start to live… they’re not children anymore, and they’re not just mothers.

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.