Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

Dancing came easy to me.