I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.