Actress

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

I am a very pragmatic person.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.