Actress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

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

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.

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

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.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

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

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

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

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