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.

You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen.

When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.

I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.

I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.