"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 shyness of the bashful, backward child...Unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence."
"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 and all the surrounding exploitation."
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