If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide.

I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.