Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year.

I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

I think it’s a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the...

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

My mother’s suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn’t even remember later on.

I’ve always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.

Usually a writer has a particular point of view in a film, and you find that all the characters come in and out of this one tone and rhythm.

I’ve learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn’t end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It’s a cycle.

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...