It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

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

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

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

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