So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

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.

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.