“I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.”

“He always called me Daughter. It was to distinguish me from his sister Ava. I loved being called Daughter. It sounded so possessive, and to be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling. It makes you feel safe. It makes you feel loved.”

“And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?”

“So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.”

“And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.”

“God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.”

“Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.”

“I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.”

“After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"”

“I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.”