I didn't go to school a lot.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

My first vocation was dance.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY.

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.