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.

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

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.

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.

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

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.