“I think my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.”

Source: 2007: Movie Icons, ISBN 9783822822081 , page 174 , Verlag Taschen GmbH

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