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

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

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

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.