When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

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.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

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