In silence – and in self-defense – I figured things out in my own little way.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I’ve dealt with them nearly all my life.

When we came to do the take, I did it my way. I played it with all the emotional abandon I possessed and loved every second of my performance.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don’t criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

A charming woman is a busy woman.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

If you have enthusiasm you have a very dynamic effective companion to travel with you on the road to somewhere.

Glamour is something you can’t bear to be without once you’re used to it.

As soon as I get home from a day of work, I bathe, brush my hair, put on fresh makeup, and slip into a hostess gown.

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.