Acting is something I love.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.