Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics..

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death..

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially..

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's j….

After you play a part, you think of it as your own..

[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room nex….

John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that k….

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress..

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was m….

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it..

So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh, that sounds fascinating. It’s wonderful!” And I told my ….

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old..

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress]..

John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone ….

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress..

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life..

It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're righ….

A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging..

I only watch my movies that I make once, so I can just see how it hangs together, but after that, I don't watch them again. A lot of people have disa….

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thin….

John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said, "Great, let's read it." I read it and I ….