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

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 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.

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?

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