Experimented Quotes

"I felt very intuitive that my particular personality and nature were like Nova. Automatically, I`d say that`s about 80% of the part. The director, the producer, and the writer talked with me about her, and they described her as "sub-human." We hadn`t really had an actress play "sub-human" before. Nova`s not like the Raquel Welch`s character in One Million Years B.C. (1966). She was more primitive because of the Ape`s suppression. We played it by ear and experimented. It was really a moment-to-moment."

I never did drugs - they made me feel awful physically. Of course, I experimented, but soon I thought, `This is not worth the shame spiral the next day`. I`m the kind of person who, if I went to a slumber party and smoked a cigarette, I assumed my parents were going to die as punishment. So I`d have to call my mom, tell her I`d smoked and feel really bad.

I never really thought we`d fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

We were always open to all sides and experimented an awful lot. That way we had a lot of mellow songs and a lot of noisy, loud songs.

(on working with Alfred Hitchcock on "Psycho") Hitch relished scaring me. When we were making "Psycho," he experimented with the mother`s corpse, using me as his gauge. I would return from lunch, open the door to the dressing room and propped up in my chair would be this hideous monstrosity. The horror in my scream, registered on his Richter scale, decided which dummy he`d use as the Madame.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

I felt very intuitive that my particular personality and nature were like Nova. Automatically, I`d say that`s about 80% of the part. The director, the producer and the writer talked with me about her, and they described her as "sub-human." We hadn`t really had an actress play "sub-human" before. Nova`s not like Raquel Welch`s character in One Million Years B.C. (1966). She was more primitive because of the apes` suppression. We played it by ear and experimented. It was really a moment-to-moment thing.

I had everything. I was earning more than $50,000 a year, working steadily with good parts. Then I started putting all my spare time in my arm. I`m not really sure why I started using narcotics. I was 17 when I first experimented with the stuff. In no time at all I was using whatever was available, mostly heroin, because I had the money to pay for it.