"[1977 comment on Gary Cooper] I loved working with Gary Cooper. Gary was my favorite. He was so terrific-looking, and…"

"It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen."

"I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself."

"I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and…"

"The fact that I did not marry George Bernard Shaw is the only real disappointment I've had."

"[on Hollywood] I hated the place - not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers …"

"If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, eve…"

"(on doing interviews) Quite frankly, I'd rather have my throat slit."

"I bumped into every kind of disappointment, and was frustrated at every turn. Roles promised me were given to other p…"

"First I played ingénues and western heroines; then I played western heroines and ingénues. That diet of roles became …"