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

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

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

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.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

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