Sally Kellerman Quotations

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

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

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.

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.

Yeah, I had done a lot of television in the '60s and I was dying to get into the movies. I was just sure I should be in the movies.

That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

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

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

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

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

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

I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

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

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

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

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