Ali MacGraw

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique. ”

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life. ”

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word. ”

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look. ”

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut. ”

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work. ”

I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite. ”