I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!

When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

• you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

I want to make sure that everything that I'm creating, I'm creating it so other people get enjoyment out of it. And that's the reward that you get for that.

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.