I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

Robert De Niro asked her out during the filming of Taxi Driver (1976). She did not like working with Charles Grodin on The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and that it took her several years to like him enough to have a one-night stand with him. She later canceled the date and Nicholson would not speak to her again except to say "hi" at a party many years later.

Her better known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show (1971) as Betsy in Taxi Driver (1976) as Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting (1985–1989) as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill (1995–1998) as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word (2007–2009) and as Madeleine Spencer in Psych (2008–2010).