Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

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.

The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

While making "Possessed", I wept each morning on my drive to the studio, and I wept all the way back home. I found it impossible to sleep at night, so I'd lie in bed contemplating the future. I fear it with all my heart and soul even as I fear the dark.

Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.