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.

I never regretted what I turned down.

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.

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 have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.

My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.

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.