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.

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

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

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 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?

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.