You can't always be a leading lady.

The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb