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

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

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.

Future is awesome. All we have to do now is to build it.

I buried my face against his neck, breathing him in - the smell of machine oil, summertime, a thousand memories

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King.