"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."

"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."

"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."

"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set."

"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."

"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."

"Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish."

"Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not."