I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

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