Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.