"I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films."
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"I’d really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit."
"Everyone is entitled to my opinion"
"I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman."
"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."
"It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs."
"I had very little confidence in myself as an actress."
"I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much."
"There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material."
"As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues."
"As an actress I take roles I find interesting."
"I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt."
"Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress."
"I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it."
"I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses."
"I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life."
"I'm going to become a real professional actress."
"For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me."
"There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career."
"I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes."