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.

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

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

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

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