Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

I never had a doubt about wanting to be an actress, but certainly when there were periods of unemployment, I would think, Oh, I'm never going to work again. The only thing I don't like about it is the business part of it - the negotiating and all this stuff that you don't learn in school. I'm not good with business.

Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?