I’m a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I’ve been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It’s my favorite. – Ali MacGraw
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did ‘Love Story’, which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call ‘real’ work.’ I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer’s assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit. – Ali MacGraw
My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband. – Ali MacGraw
I’m in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again. – Ali MacGraw
I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique. – Ali MacGraw
If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can’t turn that around. You can’t wake up three years later and say, ‘Stop bothering me, I’m a serious actor,’ if all you’ve done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs. – Ali MacGraw
You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work. – Ali MacGraw
I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way. – Ali MacGraw
My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder. – Ali MacGraw
People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word. – Ali MacGraw
There’s so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you’ve spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it’s pretty terrifying. – Ali MacGraw
It’s not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it’s how I want to be in 15 years. – Ali MacGraw
I was really involved with other people’s opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don’t have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It’s not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that. – Ali MacGraw
I think it’s tough when you’re very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention. – Ali MacGraw
It’s been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am. – Ali MacGraw
I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I’m in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot. – Ali MacGraw
The quality of my life has changed dramatically – not the events – but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama. – Ali MacGraw
I’ve always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created. – Ali MacGraw
In film, there’s so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn’t quite come off in the perfect way envisioned. – Ali MacGraw
