It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.