I just don’t believe in surgery unless there are no other alternatives. I think that sometimes it is so easy to say, Let’s operate.

The elegance and the quality – the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn’t make any difference to me.

We try to be driven by what’s a good story, what’s truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

My dream job has already happened.

They’re guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we’ve done that, been there, and we don’t want to do that any more.

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of – I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can’t be on top all the time, it isn’t...

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

I wanted to write something from a child’s viewpoint… Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was...

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together – the high highs and the low lows.

There’s no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

I didn’t worry about leaving the fast lane – I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though....

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie...

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind… maybe closer to Alien. I don’t see it in...

But I have always said that it’s important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

I’m working my way toward divinity.

Do you have any idea what it’s like when you try and make home porn? My husband and I tried it. We looked like charging hippos. Best to leave it to the pros.

I wasn’t a rock ‘n’ roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?

Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

I’m not ambitious.

My mother was against me being an actress – until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

When something is truly funny, it’s funny all the time.

I don’t need a psychiatrist. I’m Catholic.

There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought...

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater...

When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was...

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

I’m an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

I’ve got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it’s not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I’m trying to sort things out, so I can...

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

I can’t believe how blessed I am! I’m married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I’m deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can...

I’ve experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I’ve read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

I don’t care what people’s myths are about me.

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don’t know if that would happen today.

Shirley MacLaine said, You’re so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn’t hear, I couldn’t see. I thought I was going to pass out.

I’m not a sun person.

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.