Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.

I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists.