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

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

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

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

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

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

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