The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

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

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

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.

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

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.