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.

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

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

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

I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.