I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.