Sally Kellerman Quotes & Trivia

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

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

I did another film called Younger and Younger with Donald, and Elliott and I have been friends, and I love Tom.

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

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

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

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

I really went out to see about the other part - Lt. Dish was why I was there.

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 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.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

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

I was in the pilot of Star Trek.

I was shocked, because I came from TV, where you couldn't change a word or - at that time - have any input into the scripts.

I was so thrilled to be working as an actress that I had a good time wherever I was.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Separate from that, I've got a new album deal. So after all these years, things are just coming to me, and it's wonderful.

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.

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.

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.