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

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.