Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines. That's acting. You're not yourself saying those lines, you're somebody else.

I haven't been back to London for 40 years to do a play, so to play Madame Arcati there, she would be tickled to death knowing that that was what I was doing. I hope she would. She was a wonderfully unique and very special, very darling woman.

We all have levels of performance.

A sitcom. I hate that word.

Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines. That's acting. You're not yourself saying those lines, you're somebody else.

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.

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