I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

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.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

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