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

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

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.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

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

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

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.