I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

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

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.