 The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. |
| I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. |
| I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. |
| As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. |
| Nobody gets anything for nothing. |
| Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. |
| The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. |
| I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. |
| From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. |
| All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. |
| If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. |
| My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. |
| Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. |
| Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. |
| Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. |
| In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. |
| Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. |
| Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat. |
| I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. |
| I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European. |
