I always tried to play my hunches.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter’s unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn’t enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

I existed in a world that never is – the prison of the mind.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let’s Pretend, it’s often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother’s distress.

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can’t provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood’s rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

Children don’t understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.