My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: ‘If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.’ The rest of the cast remembered a television director’s adage.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they’re out of my life. I cross them out.

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing...

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

Women’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.

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.

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.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it’s just got a bad flue.

I do it because I want to exercise people’s compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can’t have things?

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I’m over 18, let alone over 21.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I’m very interested in the music scene...

I was not an easy kid.

I wrapped “Buffy” and I always felt on “Buffy” that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show....

I did a whole bunch of really bad movies.

As our cities have developed, they’ve built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we’ve taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people...

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

Maybe you’re better to play a villain just straight out.

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.