Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

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.

They were grooming Doris Day to take over the top spot. Jack L. Warner asked me to play her sister in one picture. I said, "Come on, Jack. No one could ever believe that I would have Doris Day for a sister."

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

Be afraid of nothing.

all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.