No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

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

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

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.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

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