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

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

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

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead