I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

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The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

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Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

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