Actress

Every five minutes, every hour, every day, every year that you waste worrying about your cancer - you have forfeited time that you could have been alive having fun.

I danced in choruses from about 1959 to 1967, in 'Take Me Along,' 'Wildcat,' and 'Subways Are for Sleeping.'

I loved working in the theater.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

Live fully in the instant.

I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.

As physics has proven, we're ultimately particulate matter, which means we are all one. That's why racial and gender bias is so ridiculous.

Rhoda Morgenstern gave a wonderful impetus and propulsion to my career.

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

I have had a magnificent run.

All of us have the same thing coming - death. It's waiting. But I don't want to go. I want to live to be 102!

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.

As long as you're alive, you can do something.

I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.

If I wake up in the night terrified, I try to find a way to not let the fear have me. Every moment you spend in fear of cancer is a moment you've wasted enjoying life. Replace that fear - get in the moment and enjoy it.

Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day of the funeral because then you miss the life that you have left.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

I have cancer. It's in my brain... What are you gonna do about it?

Above all, learn to live when you're dying.