- Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.
- It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
- I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.
- I think in my 40s, right around the time of The Turning Point (1977), that I began to address myself more to the future. See, I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I never had the problems the other actresses my age had. I was never a great beauty. I was never a sex symbol. I did, however, have great legs, because I was a dancer. But I didn't have that baggage. I wasn't interested in my stature as a star. Ever. I was just interested in good parts.
- [about her considering ballet as a profession) I was never good enough to be a soloist. Quatre ballet was about all I could handle. I didn't have those beautifully constructed feet [high arches, high insteps]. My extension on my left leg was pretty good, but I didn't point my foot with that grace that suggests true beauty.
- An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
- I can't define longevity. I don't know what it means.
- [New York Times interview, Oct. 16, 2005]: I regret turning down the lead role in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) which Ellen Burstyn deservedly won an Oscar for. I said to myself: "Who is this Martin Scorsese person?".
- [on Oscars] I love to win those things. Love it. The only part about it I don't like is the red carpet and getting a dress and walking around in high heels and holding in my stomach. I hate that.
- [on accepting her Oscar, 1983] I am going to cry because this show has been as long as my career! I have wondered for 26 years what this would feel like! Thank you for terminating the suspense.
- I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.
- ...I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
- I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.
- My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.
- [after being offended by David Letterman on his show] Cher was right! You are an asshole!
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