When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.