I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

I'm not getting old. I'm getting better.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.