I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens is that you match the words to the movement, and once you know where you're moving, then the words that accompany that movement become not locked into your mind and your brain and your whole body.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later on, when you start to get the really great roles. You've played that part to a certain degree in that picture, and you played that one in that, and so on. You add it all up, and you have that experience.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."