As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.