I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

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

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.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

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.