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(5 quotes by Janet Leigh)
Psycho (1960) gave me very wrinkled skin. I was in that shower for seven days - 70 setups. At least, he [Alfred Hitchcock] made sure the water was warm.
When asked if it was true that she doesn`t take showers: "It`s actually, honestly true. And not because of the shooting of it. It was the seeing of it. It never dawned on me how truly vulnerable we are. But that`s what [Alfred Hitchcock] did. A shower. A ...
On her Psycho (1960) co-star, the late Anthony Perkins: To me, he was a leading man. But to the rest of the world, he`ll always be `Norman Bates.` People just wouldn`t let him be anything else.
[on working with Alfred Hitchcock on "Psycho"] Hitch relished scaring me. When we were making "Psycho," he experimented with the mother`s corpse, using me as his gauge. I would return from lunch, open the door to the dressing room and propped up in my cha...