You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.