 I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act. |
| I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read. |
| Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit. |
| Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides. |
| I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother. |
| Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau. |
| We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust. |
| I used up every cent I earned as an actress. |
| The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. |
| The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios. |
| Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt. |
| I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. |
| I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. |
| Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. |
| Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. |
| My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. |
| Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie. |
| When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. |
| Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish. |
| Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. |
