I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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

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

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.

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