Sondra Locke

“It was never my fame - it was his fame. I was Clint's girl. I only stood to lose professionally.”

“Believe me, I have met so many people who absolutely have no reason to feel important, and they do!”

“Laszlo Kovacs was marvelous. He was very much in the same school as Bill Frake, who was, of course, a great cinematographer as well. They had a very similar style and similar sensibility.”

“Let my critics direct a movie if they think it's so easy!”

“Working on location is ideal because you enter the character and the story. Shooting at a studio near home, there's a certain split. But on location, you forget the real world, and when you come back to reality, just going to the market can be traumatic.”

“I think that most films have too much music in them; it overwhelms an audience.”

“I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.”

“If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business. You weren't in the movie business. You weren't part of Hollywood. This became clear early on; people stopped calling. They automatically assumed I was working exclusively with Clint.”

“People have this fantasy that it's all just an easy ride if you know someone important. Well, it's not. I've known lots of people in this business - and it hasn't really done anything for me.”

“I wanted people to know just who I am and what I'm all about and what actually happened. And to remind people that I had a life before Clint, and I intend to have one after.”

“The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.”

“When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.”

“I think if more women had been directing when I was a child, I probably would have gone for directing first. But, as a child, all I wanted to do was make movies.”

“My starring in films with Clint didn't make me toast of the town. I became his appendage. Everything I did was in his shadow.”

“Noel Black, who directed 'Pretty Poison,' got me to play a film-making student in 'Cover Me Babe.' At least it wasn't another tomboy.”

“I'm a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone's idea if it is a good one.”

“When the actor you're developing a rapport with is directing, you feel much more camaraderie about scenes, and you can relate in a much tighter way.”

“I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.”

“If I'm playing a real-life person, I would take notes, I think that's important. For instance, when I played Rosemary Clooney, I was lucky enough to meet her; thankfully, she was still with us. And I talked with her and read her book, so when it's a real person, I want to find out everything I can.”

“'Ratboy' is an offbeat film with a lot of comments to make about human values. But, because it's offbeat, it doesn't have an obvious market.”