 I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind. |
| I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection. |
| I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera. |
| In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress. |
| Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. |
| What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad. |
| I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men. |
| I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him. |
| I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity. |
| Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money. |
| I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. |
| I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me. |
| Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. |
| The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. |
| I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices. |
| I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions. |
| Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. |
| Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew. |
| As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all. |
| I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man. |
