“For me these things are more important: I would show up for auditions and...what I'm telling you is not presumptuous, believe me, it's that I was so strange and particular in my time that there weren't many women like me, and if they took me it was because they really needed [someone] like me; then I had my own character, because I didn't carry anyone on my shoulders and I wasn't anyone's lover; I was chosen precisely because my skills were needed.”