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

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

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.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

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

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.