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

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

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.

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

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

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.