Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Death is my neighbor now.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

I got a lot of positive people around me.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

i change by not changing at all

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.