I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.
I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress.
The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?
Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.
When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.
Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
I am essentially a loner.
A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.
It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.
I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
