Off screen, I am a very shy person, and I want to keep my personal life completely personal.
What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome with him? Did you spend much time together off-screen? Those are a small sampling of the inquiries I'm asked often, wherever I go around the world.
In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.
I'm a character actress.
When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.
I am very good at comedy off screen. I wish I could translate it so that you could get to see how mad I am.
Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.
I don't like the term 'voice-over.'
I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.
I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
I like doing both TV and live stuff, though it's nice to mix it up.
On screen chemistry can be very different from off screen chemistry.
It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.
