I always believed in my characters. I lived them

I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy

Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.