I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

I was always playing the hard bitten drunk.

When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.

It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

We should certainly count our blessings but we should also make our blessings count.

What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a new consensus to emerge of disaffected liberals, classical liberals, dissident minorities like gays, small-state conservatives, libertarians, people who basically want to be left alone.

Good things are always coming our way, we're just looking in the wrong direction. Turn around.

I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield curve is not stimulative; flattening the yield curve is anti-stimulative.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.

A football team represents a way of being a culture.

You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

During shooting, you have the idea, like, of this certain dress on this actress, but it's not to fit, so you have to make all of these alterations and modifications. So in a way, I build the characters with the cast, and it's sort of custom-made, the whole process, and then you have to make all of these adjustments.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.