My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

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.

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

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.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.