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

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.