You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen.
Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.
Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.
My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.
Actors are not made, they are born.
I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.
I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."
I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.
I never regretted what I turned down.
The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.
Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.
The theater is magical and addictive.
We all have levels of performance.
My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.
The thing I always say is that I wasn't going out reaching for roles, I wasn't fighting for roles - people came to me. They always came to me.
I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.
I honestly feel that "Murder, She Wrote" stands alone, as many of the other great shows of the past 35, 40 years do. It stands alone, and it's still on. It's still all over the world, "Murder, She Wrote," Jessica Fletcher and "Murder, She Wrote."
I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.
Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.
Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.
I had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and said, "Darling, I just wanted you to know that you have been chosen to receive an honorary Academy Award." I was in the back of this car, and I said, "Oh," and burst into tears, of course, because it was so unexpected and quite wonderful. I thought it's been worth hanging around all these years.
... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.
I don't think about going back to the theater.
