When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.