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For an actor, you sometimes have to say yes to these type of jobs. Especially when you get older, and are a woman.

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I’m in my 90s and it’s lovely to have any of my films appreciated.

I think the most important impetus in life, is that it not be boring. The fear of boredom drove me more than any yearning for something I wanted to achieve.

It was like, one day you were an actress who could do anything, and the very next day, you could not work in film or television again. And that was the temper of the times.

The work she did in the film was very sensitive. There was something in her character that struck a chord with her. I found her fascinating.

I was a bird imitating the birds. And so it was their kind of imaginary world that I was raised in, and it was part delicious and part confusing.

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