Shirley Knight

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.