Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.

I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.