I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing Gunsmoke.

Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6.

Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

We are civilized animals doing uncivilized things.

I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.

We're carrying the fire.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.

I look like a geeky hacker but I don’t know anything about computers.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.