One of the most celebrated people in the world desperate not to be recognized,

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.