My tears speak for me.

I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.

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

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

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.

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

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