Quotes

"Glory! What is glory really? It's just stress and nothing more. The proof is Garbo, Monroe and many others who just couldn't deal with it. Hayworth had become an alcoholic, Bardot has locked herself in a house. What kind of glory is this anyway?" (1982)

"If I die tomorrow the exact same thing that has happened to Marilyn Monroe in the U.S. will happen to me too: for as long as she was alive and well people looked down upon her and considered her some sort of an inferior "product". The moment she died, scenes from her movies were spliced together and everybody said "look, what an amazing phaenomenon, what a great actress she was." (1976)

"Sometimes I get enormously scared and see everything pitch-black. But then I turn and look at the sun and I shout out loud: I'm with you. C'mon,let's start all over again." (1995)

"Yes, I am very scared of death and loneliness. I am scared of death because I love life too much, because it's impossible for me to accept the concept of the inevitable ending. I am scared of loneliness in the sense of the ultimate isolation." (1994)

The man in my life is me!

I know what cheapened me. The film industry. Of course, this wouldn't happen if I had Bergman or Antonioni as director.

Take a gemstone and wrap it with colorful ribbons and cellophane. Will you pay attention to it? That's what happened in my case too. My substantial potential concealed along the way, got buried, covered with several wrappings, that look more shiny externally.

I'm proud of my films, which perhaps haven't been lofty, but they had sobriety and diligence.

I was the one that reconciled the audience with the Greek cinema, that made the audience love the Greek actors, that raised up the salary of the Greek actors. But I'm neither the most financially profited from this job, nor I became that rich. There are, indeed, a hundred ways to solve someone's financial problems, but I didn't use them, 'cause I don't care that much about money.

For me, exoneration is situated on the stage. I'm a genuine theater woman and I'll die on the stage. In that place, I find my greatest pleasure.