The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.