Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.
I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter. . . I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.
You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.
Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.