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Sally Kellerman
American
Actress
About the author
I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Want
#Trying
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Film
#Career
#Beginning
No, I don't belong to a retirement community.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Community
#Retirement
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Friends
#Class
It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Life
#Years
I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Work
I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Hope
Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Career
I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Movies
#Road
I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Wife
He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Work
I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Time
#Career
And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Song
I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Career
I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Years
#Therapy
I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Funny
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Dumb
I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
Sally Kellerman,
American
Actress
#Boston
#Romantic