"I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions."

"The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title."

"About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient."

"I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind."

"I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came."

"I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men."

"I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war."

"Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew."

"My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg."

"As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all."

"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."

"The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings."

"My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up."

"When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists."

"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties."

"Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems."

"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none."

"We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust."

"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test."

"I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be."

"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money."

"In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress."

"I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years."

"It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors."

"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."

"Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides."

"I simply did not want my face to be my talent."

"I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past."

"I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection."

"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."

"The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios."

"When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term."

"Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain."

"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera."

"I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction."

"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?"

"The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941."

"I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act."

"I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read."

"In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening."

"I always tried to play my hunches."

"I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother."

"For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio."

"There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day."

"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."

"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity."

"I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices."

"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."

"Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt."

"When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb."