 Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses. |
| In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. |
| My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg. |
| It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. |
| I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging. |
| I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came. |
| I always tried to play my hunches. |
| The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title. |
| I simply did not want my face to be my talent. |
| When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb. |
| I was not cut out to be a rebel. |
| There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day. |
| Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems. |
| I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. |
| I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication? |
| It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. |
| About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. |
| When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. |
| I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past. |
| I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself. |
