"I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time."

“Write drunk; edit sober.”

“The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.”

“It takes a lot to still believe in people.”

“To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.”

“Never trust a second thought. Where there is two there is three. You will end up thinking forever.”

“The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.”

“I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.”

“That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself”