Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

You can't always be a leading lady.

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.