I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.