As far back as I can remember, I've had only one real ambition to be an actress.
As far back as I can remember, I've had only one real ambition to be an actress.
I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.
I would love to still be using my name.
And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart.
I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.
I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.
It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.
Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
If you can see what the outside is like, it stimulates the imagination, it frees you in a way, to think and feel the way a character might.
Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.
But then I became so disillusioned.... I had very little life experience and certainly no technique to deal with comedy with any flair.
The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me
One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.
I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.
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