Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

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.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

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

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