I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.
There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.
I MUST go to what desperately frightens me -- the chance of failure.
There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
You just do the best you can with what you've got. . . and sometimes magic strikes.
I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.
Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.
I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.
Happy Days was about a family. . . although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.