I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Lucy was lovely.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

No fruit. No veggie.

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.

I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently, and your life will change.

I would like to be known as someone who was really sweet but also knowledgeable in all areas of life.

When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.'

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You cant just wish for it and you cant put it in the hands of other people.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

Heavy metal drives me bonkers it makes me want to vomit heavy metal really is a pile of puke.