I'm clean and sober.

I loved being a troublemaker. At Santa Monica High, I would smoke on campus, go barefoot, anything.

Mother was so good that I was defeated even before I started to be an actress. I thought I could never make it unless I spent years in the Actors Studios, went on the blacklist and lived in New York, as she did.

I started acting as a way to support myself.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

I remember unbelievable tension in our home. There were lots of meetings, lots of worries. I remember my father told me I had to be careful of what I said on the phone because it was tapped. And I remember how his friends adored and revered him.

I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'

When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point, and I go, 'Look what she did! She did the funniest thing - look at her!' Where I can really separate back from it and I don't see me anymore, then I'm really excited. That's, like, really fun for me. That jazzes me.

I found out my limit. I'm not a singer and a dancer.

I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.