This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.