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

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

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.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.