Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It seemed as if anyone could do better than I did. In every part I was worse than in the one before, and even my mother admitted that it would be a mercy if gestures could be dispensed with entirely.

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

I love Salt Lake City, but I love you and the life of work before me still better.