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

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

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

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.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.