We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy..

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and th….

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now..

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up w….

All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after..

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depr….

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless..

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school..

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.

I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way..

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven ….

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them..

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger day….

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to….

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.