Top 10 Bonnie Bedelia Quotes

I grew up in a slum neighborhood – rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood – we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

If I spoke Italian, I’d be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.

I’m from New York; I’ve been in show business all my life. I’m a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It’s a pain in the butt. I’m a femme fatale!

I have two children – could I ever choose between them? Never. That’s what ‘Sophie’s Choice’ was about. If you have 50 children, you don’t love one less.

Whenever there’s heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am – no, they don’t think of me.

I don’t take the roles home with me. I don’t work that way. I don’t understand that; I mean, I really don’t when I hear that.

When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.

I didn’t even know how to judge ‘Die Hard 1.’ It’s not anything I know how to judge. I’d never seen an action movie. I’d never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

I don’t consider roles like in ‘Die Hard’ what I do. This is like a hobby. It’s fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it’s about things getting blown up. It’s not about great character development.