You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen..

I haven't been back to London for 40 years to do a play, so to play Madame Arcati there, she would be tickled to death knowing that that was what I w….

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying..

A sitcom. I hate that word..

Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain ope….

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can..

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring t….

I played the Piccadilly Theater with "Gypsy" and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for 40 years..

You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a character are in relation to those othe….

Unfortunately, because the theater is always a poor relation when it comes to making the nut, it's not easy to get the audience in to see a play, unl….

Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older..

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen..

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody..

Roles came to me. I was very, very lucky in that respect. Great directors, great writers, great producers - they saw something in me that they wanted….

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself..

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides..

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember..

As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some ….

I had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and said, "Darling, I just wanted you to know that….

I honestly feel that "Murder, She Wrote" stands alone, as many of the other great shows of the past 35, 40 years do. It stands alone, and it's still ….

I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his no….