The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

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.

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

I never regretted what I turned down.

You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later on, when you start to get the really great roles. You've played that part to a certain degree in that picture, and you played that one in that, and so on. You add it all up, and you have that experience.

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

I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.