I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.