[on Bernardo Bertolucci] "For me, Bernardo is The Function. The only way I can explain it is in the analogy with mathematics and the word `function` - addition, subtraction, multiplication, anything that numbers go through and change because of it. And when the function is a function of love, the drapes on the windows, the doors that are hung, the characters, the clothes, everything goes through this function and comes out touched and inspired by it. There are a lot of numbers but what really matters is the function."

"I have trouble with star billing. I remember thinking on Cannery Row (1982): How can I put my name ahead of Steinbeck`s?"

[on her early roles in commercials] "I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald`s, Burger King. The Face That Didn`t Matter - that`s what I called my face."