I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

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

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.

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.

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

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