art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden..

Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse..

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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….

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

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….

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..

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