Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

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."

I played the Piccadilly Theater with "Gypsy" and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for 40 years.

Actors are not made, they are born.

Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

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.