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.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

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

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.