Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.