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

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

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

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

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 guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

I have within me all that I need

I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.