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

What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

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

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

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.