As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some of them were very just distasteful and awful because I was playing out of my age range and I was thoroughly uncomfortable, let's put it that way. So it took me many years to find my acting feet.

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.

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."

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 never regretted what I turned down.

It was an extraordinary experience to have backup singers like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have never experienced anything quite like it before and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.