My tears speak for me.

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

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

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.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

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

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."