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" I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. "

" Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. "

" If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days? "

" 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 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. "

" The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation. "

" I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' "

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

" I am essentially a loner. "

" I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short. "

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

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

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" It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. "

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

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" You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. "

" 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. "