I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them

That's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.