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

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

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.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.