I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.