I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.