Sally Kellerman

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.