When I Start To Write, I See

Every Time I Do Anything, I Have To Ask Myself: Is It A Good Role, And Is It Right To Do It? There May Be Sex Or Nudity Or Violence In The Script, And Then You Have To Say: Is It Gratuitous Just Out To Shock People? Or Is It There Because It Has To Be? If A Role Demands It, And It Isn't Gratuitous, I'll Do It. It's My Job, After All. I'm An Actress.

Growing Up In England, Of Course You Do Absorb Certain Ways The Royals Wave Their Hands And Carry Themselves. Like Most Girls, I Fantasized About Being Some Sort Of A Princess.

I'd Like To Be An Original, To Be Myself And Not A Pale Copy Of Anyone Else.

I Was Raised Never To Carp About Things And Never To Moan, Because In Vaudeville, Which Is My Background, You Just Got On With It Through All Kinds Of Adversities.

Once In A While I Experience An Emotion Onstage That Is So Gut-wrenching, So Heart-stopping, That I Could Weep With Gratitude And Joy. The Feeling Catches And Magnifies So Rapidly That It Threatens To Engulf Me.