 Change is never easy. |
| I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did. |
| I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet. |
| I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. |
| If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever. |
| But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter. |
| My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.' |
| Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. |
| I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work. |
| There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy. |
| I've never had my heart broken. |
| I came from a real working-class show business family. |
| My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me. |
| I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do. |
| But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole. |
| When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing. |
| I have never been beautiful in cliche terms. |
| You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present. |
| It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. |
| There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose. |
