"When you're with somebody for a long time or have a child with someone, you start to expect them to be this person you had in mind. Then if they don't fill the expectation, resentment starts to come up."

"We're both strong, and there's something that all Southern women have in common — the survivor instinct."

"[On her relationship with Frank Sinatra] We were great in bed. It was usually on the way to the bidet when the trouble began."

"On The Beach is a story about the end of the world, and Melbourne sure is the right place to film it."

"[On John Ford] The meanest man on earth. Thoroughly evil. Adored him!"