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

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

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 approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

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

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

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.