My Grandson Sees Me As

I Was With Brian De Palma At The Time, And He Said He Wrote The Role Specifically For Me. I Don't Know What That Says About The Way He Saw Me, Since The Role Was Of A Castrating Killer. Brian Came One Morning To The House, Said "here's Your Christmas Present." He Wrote The Character To Have A Swedish Accent, But Since I Couldn't Pull That Off, He Switched It To French-canadian. It Was Such A Romantic Time In My Life. Everyone Was Young And Passionate And Convinced They Were Going To Change Film Forever.

Acting's Fun, But Life's More Important

I Wandered Around Not Knowing What I Was Doing In The Great Waldo Pepper And Feeling Pretty Lost, And They Rightly Cut My Part Down. I Don't Think I Was In Very Good Emotional Shape. I Think I Was A Bit Of A Mess. I'd Done About Six Movies Back-to-back, And Was In A State Of Complete Exhaustion.

We Were Sweet, Lovely People Who Wanted To Throw Out All The Staid Institutions Who Placed Money And Wars Above All Else. When You're Young You Think That's How Life Works.

I'll Have That Inscribed On My Damn Grave. I Still Get Stopped For Being Lois Lane, And I'm 60 And Have Two Grandchildren. So It's Kind Of Weird.