While filming 'Annie Hall,' I never really hung out with Woody Allen.
If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.
This profession has no rhythm to it - you're either busy enough to fall down, or nothing's happening!
I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.
I've been lucky in my career. I've worked with some of the greatest filmmakers and actors around. I'm so proud of some of my work.
Life is very cyclical. And my career has been very-high-very-low, very-high-very-low, and I think it'll probably keep on rolling that way.
I want to be Geraldine Page; I want to be one of the greats.
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.
It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.
For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.
A goal of mine is to try and be as real as possible. To try and not comment on the work I'm doing but just do it.
You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.
I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.
I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!
I didn't decide to be a character actress.
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
'Hester Street' was an incredible opportunity for me. That script was such an incredible script.
Acting is pretty much my whole life.
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
