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 show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.