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 French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

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.

Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?