Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the….

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish..

Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back..

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition..

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability..

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short..

You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are..

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife..

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check..

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone..

I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man..

I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World.

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long..

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work..

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an act….

Where do you go to get anorexia?.

We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him..

The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are..

To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated..

Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it..

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tastef….