Boston Globe A stage director you work with said you made a conscious decision to become a great actress.
Nobody can make a conscious decision to become a great actress - it's an impossibility.
You can make a conscious decision to play great classic parts, and that's what I did - to play as many of them as I could while I was still fit enough to. Greatness was never on my agenda. It never stopped me from doing anything, I don't think. The only area in which I've not been able to do anything I'm proud of is film. Perhaps that happened because I was a television star.