I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

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.

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 was not cut out to be a rebel.

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.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

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.