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

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

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.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.