About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

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

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.