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.

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

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.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb