Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.
I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.
I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.
Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.
No amount of therapy will take care of a chemical imbalance of the brain.
You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.
I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.
I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.
At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.
Nobody gets through life on a pass.
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
