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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress. (hollywood)
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. (america)
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. (disease)
It was in London that I met Noel Coward, whose plays I had read. (town and country)
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. (actors)
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. (jealousy)
Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides. (life)
Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt. (men)
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. (hollywood)
My father demanded obedience from his children. (fathers)
My father sent me to school abroad because he wanted to give me the best possible education. (fathers)
My mother was a gymnastics teacher. (mother)
My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg. (mother)
On location, I enjoyed the company of Jeanne Crain. (unknown)
Otto Preminger was a fine actor in Europe who went on to become more renowned as a director. (acting and actors)
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. (unknown)
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau. (women)
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios. (hollywood)
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. (unknown)
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. (unknown)
The part of Laura brought my only nomination for an Academy Award. (awards)
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