Cinema (& not only)
"My sister's death (1966) really pulled me up. How can you go on being frivolous after a death in your family? That's why, probably from that moment on, I went deep down, searching for the whys and wherefores of life, rather than wanting to be in films for entertainment, or just having fun, or just looking pretty and being a dolly bird."
"My sister's death (1966) really pulled me up. How can you go on being frivolous after a death in your family? That's why, probably from that moment on, I went deep down, searching for the whys and wherefores of life, rather than wanting to be in films for entertainment, or just having fun, or just looking pretty and being a dolly bird."
'So, things suddenly weren't swinging any more, quite like they were. I think that's when I tried to understand what the hell was going on, and took parts like Night Porter, and other parts that sort of delved into the human psyche - they weren't just entertainment films. I didn't want to entertain any more. I became very aware of the other side of life, not just having fun.'
I ran away from all the schools I was sent to. When my family started to fall apart at an early age, I just went off. So the roles very much from then on reflected that. I was pretty rebellious anyway as a kid. I wouldn't do anything anybody wanted me to, ever."
“I can't express something on film if I don't feel it inside me. My cinematic roles have always been very closely tied to what was going on in my life.”
“I never do anything unless I want to. I have been penniless sometimes and turned down lots of things, commercial crap. But of all the films I have done, there isn't one I am ashamed of.”“Some proposals have been offered to me, certainly not numerous, which I have refused. After some years I was in an enormous retirement. Cinema should be a shared desire.”
“Movies are a part of my life rather than a part of my career. I do choices depending on what I can accomplish at a certain moment”.
“I want to be reborn to cinema. It's amazing when I see how many times we come back to life in one lifetime!”
"It (a role) has got to fascinate me, to smell right. I'm going to be with this person for quite a while ... she's sort of a sister, or shadow self."
“I don't like rehearsals. That's probably why I don't do theatre. I don't like repeating things.”
"I'll discover what I want to do as people offer me things. I'm not about to find projects myself. That's not the way I like to work."
“...fan clubs and that sort of thing. I think it's fine. If they want to get together and talk about my screen persona, they're imagining this whole other character that's probably much more interesting than plain old me.”
“They [British media] like me to keep the vamp image. They don't like it when I make other films.”
"Vampish roles are always ones which appealed to me most. I have enjoyed characters on the darker, more wicked side of experience. Those roles have given me the chance to explore through acting what I would never have had the guts to explore in real life."
“Working on a small budget film is much more intimate than being on a Hollywood blockbuster.”
"Vampish roles are always ones which appealed to me most. I have enjoyed characters on the darker, more wicked side of experience. Those roles have given me the chance to explore through acting what I would never have had the guts to explore in real life."
“Working on a small budget film is much more intimate than being on a Hollywood blockbuster.”
Hollywood
“It just didn't suit me. I'm not a very ambitious person and Hollywood is about ambition and career moves and getting your name around. So if you're not prepared to play that game, there's not much point in staying. There were all these American actresses my age doing it, so I would have had to fight doubly hard, and I just didn't want to do it.”
"The way they work in America is really efficient and well run, but they just don't go deep enough for me into their subjects. They like to appeal to larger audiences, so they don't get down into the character's inside, where I want to go."
"The Hollywood stuff does not interest me. I have no desire to live there and their way is not really my way of making films.”
“It just didn't suit me. I'm not a very ambitious person and Hollywood is about ambition and career moves and getting your name around. So if you're not prepared to play that game, there's not much point in staying. There were all these American actresses my age doing it, so I would have had to fight doubly hard, and I just didn't want to do it.”
"The way they work in America is really efficient and well run, but they just don't go deep enough for me into their subjects. They like to appeal to larger audiences, so they don't get down into the character's inside, where I want to go."
"The Hollywood stuff does not interest me. I have no desire to live there and their way is not really my way of making films.”
