I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

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

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

If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

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.