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.

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.