Status Updates From Jeannie Out of the Bottle

"I can still laugh, I can still go to parties, I can still have fun, but there's a part of me that is missing and always will be." - p 256

In the intervening years, I've often been asked how anyone can cope with losing a child, and thw answer ia that you don't. You can't. There'a no way. You don't know how you will live through it, how you can survive. But you just do. There's no other choice." - p 256

"In hindsight, the signposts are so clear, the pitfalls so evident, (...) fate so inevitable, but living through the hell of all of it, day by day, week by week, year by year, was quite another story." - p 248

In countless interviews, journalists have asked me how much of Barbara Eden there is in Jeannie, but the truth is this: none. I played Jeannie as Sidney wrote her, and if I infused anything into my portrayal of her, it was as a result of asking myself how it would feel to be catapulted into another world about which you know nothing (...)

"Now, chemistry between two people is something so magical, so indefinable, that not even the best actors can fake it, nor can the greatest director bring it out in them if it doesn't exist." - p 117

"(...) I like very few things in life better than tea and cakes, preferably chocolate ones." - p 115

"(...) no matter who rejects you in life, no matter how bad you feel, no matter how much that rejection hurts you, just keep on going. Put one foot in front of the other and ignore people's negative judgments, because those can change or even be forgotten." - p 53

"This is the story of all those times, good and bad, better and worse, exactly how they happened, exactly how I coped, and exactly how I didn't." - p 10