The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

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

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

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.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.