After Anatomy of a Murder, lots of rape stories and the like came in, but, one just doesn't want to play the same thing over and over again, so I didn't.
Anyone who'd want to build me up as a sex siren would have to be crazy.
Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!
Emotionally, I was not up to making a picture. But once I get into the play - and it's always that way - I forget everything else but the character I'm playing.
Every part I play is different because I don't bring the trademark neurosis to it.
Everyone in Hollywood tells me I have to develop an interview personality if I want to keep the press happy. They want me to be something I'm not.
Feature films take longer. That can sometimes be a plus, but not necessarily.
For a while there, all actresses were asked to do were things involving taking their clothes off. When finally the novelty of that somewhat wore off, things got a lot better.
I began to work more and more back in America, and we were living our lives on the Polar flight, which is not really a good way to live.
I began working as a dancer. I then got little parts to play, and found it more interesting for me and more fulfilling. It grew, the acting thing. The dancing sort of fell away.
I did my first film, which was A Face In the Crowd, and it went from there.
I did start quite young. I did a play in New York when I was 16; then I finished school.
I don't look back with any regrets on any of it.
I don't think any place makes pieces the way the English do.
I don't think I had a problem with typecasting.
I fell in love, so it didn't matter where the work was. I just fell in love with an Englishman, and this is where he lived, so here I was.
I felt on occasion that I would rather die than go back into that theatre one more night and play it yet again. It was possible to do it while thinking of other things.
I found I was able to carry on great, long speeches and at the same time I'd be reminding myself to buy my son's school blazer the next day and to be sure to get to the dentist by four o'clock.
I had fired the nanny that morning and was frantically trying to make formula for my daughter without poisoning her.
I have a problem that perhaps you can help with. I've always been too happy. I have a lovely baby, a wonderful husband, my friends all like me, and I don't have any neuroses.
I have no weight problems. I think mostly my figure is sheer luck and heredity.
I love to cook. I read cookery books from page one onwards as though they were novels.
I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.
I played Wait Until Dark for almost a year, which was about six months too long.
I studied very seriously in the ballet and really wanted to be Margo Fontaine and all those other lovely ladies. It was never to be, obviously.
I worked in the theater out in summer stock. People saw me, and called. Then I got a little television role; then something else. Then Kazan saw a television film.
I'm a naturally nervous person. I always look under the bed before getting in it.
I'm going to Budapest to make a film. I'll be there for about six weeks. Looking forward to it. Never been there.
I'm not an oddball.
I've always loved it. It has a very special place in my heart, London has.
It's difficult to keep your balance. I can't offer any formulas. You make the best of a strange way of life and always put your family first.
It's the material that matters, and all the people with whom you are working. And that can be absolutely terrible in either medium, or wonderful.
Katharine Hepburn thought I should be in Desk Set. She insisted that what was important was to be seen in one film after another.
Many times as an actress I feel crazy, yet the truth is that I would feel far more crazy if I were not an actress.
My family means a great deal to me, and my friends, and my day-to-day life. I love to work, but also adore the bits in between. I wouldn't want to forsake all of that for constantly running around the world working.
My husband Bill is a medical mystery. If you'd seen him, you wouldn't have given him a chance. They told me he'd be in the hospital for three months and would have to recuperate for three or four more at home, but he got up and walked out in three weeks. Incredible.
My life is a great deal about my work, so that's where we are for the time being.
Nobody really knows, for the most part, that I do love to sing, and can.
Nudity is pretty boring. People always seem to think that I've played very sexy scenes, but when you analyze them shot by shot, there really hasn't been much exposure.
She told me about the movie that she was about to do with Spencer Tracy and said, I think it would be a good idea if you came over to my house tonight and meet Spence.
That movie still looks good. Experiment in Terror is well made, tightly knit. But it wasn't a very interesting part-the character was a puppet, serving the purposes of the plot.
The day I got the telegram was the day I left. I was absolutely crushed and destroyed. When I arrived, Bill didn't know me. He didn't know where he was. After six days of coma, he just lay there.
The years I spent here in England were so wonderful for me in many ways.
There is a great deal of very good work being done by a lot of wonderful actresses at the moment, I think.
Why is it most actresses must be bizarre, vulgar or temperamental to make good copy?
You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.
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