Gloria Swanson

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.