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"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."
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"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."

"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."

"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."

"I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower."

"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years."

"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."

"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."

"This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience."

"I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago."
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"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."

"I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly."

"When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined."

"I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people."

"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."

"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."

"I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities."

"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."
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