My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.