Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.