If You're Gonna Fall Apart, Do It

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.

I Guess I Came To Terms With My Demons. Or Else I'd Be In Big Trouble, Wouldn't I? Horrifying As It Was To Crack Up In The Public Eye, It Made Me Look At Myself And Fix It. People Were Exploitative; That's Human Nature. I'll Tell You, Being Pretty Crazy While Being Chased By The National Enquirer Is Not Good. The British Tabloids Were The Worst. But You Take The Cards You're Dealt, And I Got Better. I'm Now Ferociously Healthy In Body And Mind. You Couldn't Pay Me To Go Near A Psychiatrist Again. Stopping Seeing Them Was My First Step To Getting Well.

There's A Lot Of Bullshit In Peter Fonda's Autobiography. A Great Deal Of It Is Complete Fabrication.

I Got A Reputation For Being Sort Of Nuts And Difficult, Because I Was At That Point, So I Wasn't Much In Demand. And Also, On The Basic Level, I'd Made A Lot Of Movies That Didn't Make Money. And If You Make Movies That Don't Make Money - I Mean, It Is A Business, After All - You Are Not In Demand.

My Grandson Sees Me As Lois On Tv Every Christmas, And That Scores Me Points.