Actress

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.