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I knew my career as an actor would change. I wouldn’t get these parts again. I had reached the age where Hollywood begins to humiliate beautiful women. I wasn’t going to do it. Walking up there, I could almost feel myself accepting that change.

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

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

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.

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