Generally women are better than men – they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.
I called my business manager in California and said, ‘Sell all of my stock’ – what little of it I had – and it’s the only smart financial move I ever made.
I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That’s why I never understood why people called me a beauty.
The madmen seem to live on forever, don’t they?
All actors are terrified – they just learn how to control it.
How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.
The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same.
I’ve always felt that work – learning from people who know more than I know – is what keeps you going.
How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That’s what love does, it changes everything.
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.
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I’ve ever known. She didn’t have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn’t tough at all.
Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.
You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.
Life is not what you expected it to be.
Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.
I’m crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That’s the kind of gambling I believe in.
I’ll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I’ll miss the six I really had.
Isn’t hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?
The purity of Jewish upbringing – the restrictions that one carries through life being a ‘nice Jewish girl’ – what a burden.