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Quotes by Actress

"When Jackie got his big contract at CBS and was putting together what turned out to be almost a stock company of players, he remembered Frank and said, 'Get me that kid who played the jail sketch.'"

"The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed."

"Chazz Palminteri is just the ultimate screen husband."

"I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order."

"It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight."

"I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before."

"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."


"Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do."

"At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces."

"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."

"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."

"Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing."

"I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships."

"Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it."

"And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years."

"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."

"I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal."

"I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute."

"I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived."

"You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed."

"Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me."

"Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God."


"Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet."


"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human."

"One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef."

"I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."


"When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset."


"I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities."

"You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented."


"There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other."

"You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?"
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