When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

I am essentially a loner.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

Acting is a life of rejection.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up.

God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.

I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.

I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

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 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.

I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.

I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

I was never my favourite subject.

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.