Quotes

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

Many times as an actress I feel crazy, yet the truth is that I would feel far more crazy if I were not an actress.

Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike.

[on Laurence Harvey] The tales I can tell of working with him (in [The Running Man (1963)]) are too horrendous to repeat.

I find it terribly depressing that 54 million people watch The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) - just about the same number who didn't take the trouble to vote in the Presidential election.

[on Wild River (1960)] It's the kind of movie I love, a major subject done in a personal way...it was the best work I had done and I think it stands up well today.

[on Montgomery Clift] He did inspire in me, as he did in most women I suppose, the feeling of wanting to look after him. He was like a wounded bird -- so vulnerable.

My interpretation of the role in Wild River (1960) was the truest in my experience, and it was Kazan [director Elia Kazan] who enabled me to make it true.

[on Jack Lemmon] He has extraordinary instinct. He's almost infallible.

I do like to have control. I like to have my say about who directs things or who's going to be in them.

This is a strange business. You can train for something that never happens, or you can get discovered and turned into a star because you happen to be in the right spot at the right moment. That's really no way to prepare for anything. Certainly you cannot plan or map out a career.

I don't quite know what stardom means. It was never something I went after, as such. I love to work; I always have, and I love trying to do the best. I suppose it means power basically -- and I'm not good at that. On a sense, he (Kazan) was right. And claws, I don't have.

She says she did The Hallelujah Trail (1965) "because my agent said I needed to be in a big picture".

I'm really a housewife who is incidentally an actress.