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

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

" I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look 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. "

" 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 don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. "

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

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

" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "

" Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium. "

" I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always. "

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" I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works. "

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" I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way. "

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" Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. "