In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.