- I don't acknowledge age. I'm not afraid of what's called age. The only thing that would ever frighten me would be losing my vitality or energy or the stars in my eyes or love for life. And I don't believe that's connected with numbers.
- [on working with director Otto Preminger on Such Good Friends (1971)] I was warned about him -- but could anybody really be that bad? Yeah, they could. Elaine May wrote a great screenplay. He took a piece of beauty and screwed it up. It was an incredible part and he destroyed it. I have been the victim of some killers in my time. He's one of the biggest. He's a horrible man. Phew! But who ever hears of him anymore? Is he still alive?
- I get asked, from time to time, "How do you stay so fit, even after all these years? It must be tai-chi or something, because you look like a cheerleader!" Actually, more than anything else, it's praying to God... not that I don't enjoy being mistaken for my daughter's sister!
- [at a screening of The Last of Sheila (1973) in 2018] I just find that watching it today, the whole rhythm of the world has changed.
- [When asked if she was ever addicted to anything, on Larry King Live] Yes, I sure have been.I was addicted to marijuana. Yes, addicted to it. I would have to have a puff off a joint before every take. I'd run out to the bathroom and come back... I was going to go make a film in Greece and in Greece, if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles, you know, in the bottom of my deodorant because I thought they'll never look in there. And I thought, what I am doing? Is this thing bigger than me? Yes, well, I need help with it.
- I happen to be a one-man woman. I always have been. I don't care who comes along the street, my head doesn't turn. Fidelity's real important to me. If you're not going to commit, let's not play.
- Esalen was an enormous help to me because it enabled me to help myself. It's very difficult to explain such an experience to other people because it's so very personal.
- I think LSD is absolutely a mind blower. I took it under a doctor's supervision, but it still didn't do anything constructive for me.
- [on her four-year stocktaking hiatus from acting in the 1970s] This time of introspection was scary but fruitful. I ran out of money, and after I said no to film offers, they stopped asking me. I started to write. I decided that, whether it was with my career, with a man, or with friends, I wouldn't compromise. I wasn't going to be with someone because I was lonely. That was the time when I was celibate. I knew many attractive men, but it seemed to me that everything was backward. People were jumping into bed together and then getting to know each other. My friends asked how I could do anything as stupid as being celibate. But I said, 'Okay, I'm going to be stupid for a while.' If I hadn't, I don't think I would have ever taken the time to write Number One (1976).
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