Ali MacGraw

I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit. ”

There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me. ”

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am. ”

There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying. ”

I have this amazing life. ”

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme. ”

I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way. ”

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama. ”

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again. ”

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants. ”