I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

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.