Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it`s related primarily to the obesity problem.

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can`t be bought.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

Judy Garland`s father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

I`ve avoided a lot of publicity over the years because I find it very hard to be articulate about either myself or work that I`ve done.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

One woman did come on to me when I was 19 or 21. I got such a terrible shock because it just came out of left field. That`s the only time in my life.

It`s not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There`s too little subtlety. Men and women don`t enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don`t find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I`m married and out of it, but still.

It`s like you`re getting ready to go to Cinderella`s ball, and then, when you lose, it`s like you wake up and realize you`re not Cinderella.

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don`t want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she`s blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn`t prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we`re always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

I wish I tanned. It would make everybody happy and get them off my back. But this is the look I was born with, and I`m stuck with it.

Of course, I`m not a celebrity. Never wanted to be one. Never promoted myself as one. I`m an actress. I think there`s a difference. To be a celebrity, one really has to go after it, and want it.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they`d do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don`t mind it.

"It`s like you`re getting ready to go to Cinderella`s ball. And then, when you lose, it`s like you wake up and realize you`re not Cinderella." (on being an Oscar nominee)

I`ve never worked for the sake of working. There`s probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

I was always terribly shy, so a great thing that acting has done for me has forced me out of myself and made me more generous.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was, I thought well, I suppose it is. It is if you get to play Macbeth or Hamlet. But who wants to play bloody Lady Macbeth or Ophelia? And it struck me that most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

[On working with David Lean] There was a touch of the bully about him - he`d take it out on the people who were the weakest and most dependent.