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.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

I was a very wanting child.

Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.