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" Going to dancing school, or being in a play, is a very familial feeling. You're around friends. "

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" What's happening to me is I'm still happy and functioning, being able to listen to music, see good movies, read good books. What else is there that I can't, you know, I mean, I'm OK. "

" I'd like to play something classical. I'm in the Strindberg society, and we do readings of Strindberg plays. I'd love to do Nora in 'A Doll's House.' And Chekhov. I have been working back to back on what I call 'regular jobs,' so it's hard to do plays. "

" This new movie, 'Full Moon in Blue Water,' I loved the idea of working with Gene Hackman, who is a great actor, but when I read the script, I threw it right into the trash can, because I didn't like this woman. She was just a doormat. "

" I try to laugh as much as possible and enjoy the company of people who can make me laugh. "

" They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain so it wouldn't bleed anymore. "

" You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it. "

" If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them. "

" I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman's neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in 'Tootsie.' Under Sydney Pollack's direction, 'Tootsie' had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera. "

" Joan Collins was the best. She really could sort of pull it off, be really outrageous and never even flinch. "

" People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems. "

" I went to North Hollywood High. I'm the original Val girl. "

" I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats. "

" '30 Rock' is one of the best things on TV, I think. "

" I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me. "

" There's always going to be somebody worse off than me. "

" I go to Yosemite a lot. To get there, you fly from L.A. to Fresno and rent a car. So I know about Fresno. It looks like the entire city was built in 1946 in three months - all these low California ranch style homes. The whole city looks like that. "

" What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50? "

" I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community. "

" I don't want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch 'Cheers' because it's very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, 'This is the great show of the universe?' To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes. "

" There are several drugs out right now that can't stop multiple sclerosis, but they can slow it way down. They also made me puff up like a balloon. So I looked horrible. I hated that. "

" Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me. "

" My mother was a real tough cookie. She raised the three of us, and she worked at the same time. "

" My mother was a role model. "

" It doesn't help to contemplate how sad your life is. You have to move on. "

" I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it. "

" I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting. "

" I'm always like this with a new movie role. I always get super-defensive and make noises like a rooster, Maybe that's because I spent so much time as a chorus girl. "

" In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate. "

" If I counted them all up, I was a dancer in sixty movies! "

" I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. "