"When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved."
"Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like."
"I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying."
"M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect."
"Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive."
"I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view."
"I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech."
"I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage."
"I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well."
"I love being creative in all forms."
"If you care enough, you make a difference."
"It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go."
"It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back."
"Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical."
"So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn."
"The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can."
"We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to."
"You only know what you know."
"Hot Lips changed a lot in eleven years. Initially, Margaret Houlihan behaved as though a man were the only thing that could complete her life, and she didn't see what richness her life contained. She gained a lot of self-esteem through the years, and she came to realize that what she did, what she offered, was valuable."
"My parents didn't want me to go into show business. They were afraid of what would happen if I didn't succeed. They wanted me to get married and have babies. I never saw marriage and family in my life."
"My first thought in life was wanting to be an actor. I was in ballet slippers and on pointe as soon as I could walk. I always wanted to be an actress, not a mother or housewife."
"If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50."
"Alan Alda is a dear friend, nothing like the cynical, bitter Hawkeye."
"Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead."
"Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do."
