It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane.

- Louise Fletcher

Only do it if you absolutely have to, because you are gonna eat rejection every single day. And it's not easy eating that rejection every single day …

- Louise Fletcher

My interest in acting was overwhelming, but I wasn't thinking, "I'm going to California and I'm going to become a movie star." Things were different …

- Louise Fletcher

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, espec…

- Louise Fletcher

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

- Louise Fletcher

That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thoug…

- Louise Fletcher

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more…

- Louise Fletcher

I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one…

- Louise Fletcher

She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when …

- Louise Fletcher