In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

Be of good courage.

Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.

I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

I like the idea of a strong woman in charge.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.