Sally Kellerman - biography

“I always wanted to be an actress.  My mother told me to get a job as an elevator operator - because Dorothy Lamour was discovered that way.”

“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.”

“I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.”

“I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.”

“I had just had small parts in other films, and I’d worked with a lot of directors in TV.”

“Well, it was the beginning of my film career.  It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.”

“My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.”

“I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.”

“I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.”

“He wasn’t directing it, of course, so I didn’t work with Hitchcock.”

“I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.”

“And he was going to give me a song, because I’m a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.”

“I didn’t want to do it...  I’d been trying to get out of TV for years!”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.”

“I was in group therapy for years but it wasn’t the same thing.  It was more about growing.”

“I wasn’t a businesswoman, so I didn’t know how to build a career.”

“I’m very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.”

“No, I don’t belong to a retirement community.”

“Well, you know, I’ve had a very checkered career.”

Sally Kellerman has appeared in the following films:
The Third Day (1965)
The Boston Strangler (1968)
The April Fools (1969)
M.A.S.H. (1970)
Lost Horizon (1973)
Slither (1973)
The Big Bus (1976)
Welcome to L.A. (1976)
The Mouse and His Child (1977)
A Little Romance (1979)
It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980)
Loving Couples (1980)
Serial (1980)
Foxes (1980)
That’s Life! (1986)
Back to School (1986)
Meatballs III: Summer Job (1987)
You Can’t Hurry Love (1988)
Paramedics (1988)
All’s Fair (1989)
Happily Ever After (1993)
Younger and Younger (1993)
Doppelganger (1993)
Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance (1994)
It’s My Party (1996)
Delgo (2008)
Night Club (2011)