Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

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

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.