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.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

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

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.