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.

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

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

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.

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