Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two