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" For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up. "

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" My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it. "

" You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. "

" God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant. "

" In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. "

" I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life. "

" I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever. "

" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "

" What is the point of working all your life and then stopping? "

" I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress. "

" I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. "

" I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene. "

" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "

" Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. "

" I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made. "

" I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. "

" I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen. "

" I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. "

" I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. "

" I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! "

" It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why. "

" I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "

" Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. "

" They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more. "

" Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it. "

" I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. "

" I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress. "

" When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill. "

" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "

" Patience was not my strong point. "

" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "