Jessie Matthews

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.

I dreaded doing close-ups.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.