Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

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.

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.

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

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

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.