There were so many people who wanted me for their films.

I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!

My light shines when things get really tough.

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up all hope of the Presidency.

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.

A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.