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

I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

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

Sensitive husbands don't like second billing. I don't believe Franchot ever for a moment resented the fact that I was a star. Possibly he resented Hollywood's refusal to let him forget it. There was never a doubt in my mind that his talent was greater than mine.

Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.

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