You can’t pay enough money to… cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I look like a duck. It’s the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

My mom was a very intellectual person, and she would really rather be reading some philosophical or theological book than ironing.

Nooooooo… favorite film, that’s like asking if you have a favorite kid!

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.

Because a lot of straight people think I’m nuts.

People will see me now and say how I’ve lost so much weight and look so beautiful now. No, I was just going through my weird years on television!

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

I’m one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

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.

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...