If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

I was a very wanting child.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

I don't yearn to be a child again.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

There are no ugly ducklings.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

It's so important to look relaxed.