As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

If you can write it, I can be it.

I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that they dont know what they are like. People at airports are the most brilliant actors in the world, because their attention is elsewhere, and they are idiosyncratic. I like to imitate people. I walk behind them and imitate their backs.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

I have kept working, even if Ive thrown off the big movies I used to do. I still have three or four wonderful little movies coming out.

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

There were all these rumors about me... so I went indoors. No one saw me for years. And since I wasnt around, people believed what they wanted.