"I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn`t realize that I really couldn`t do anything."

"I don`t know where it`s all going to lead. I have no idea where I`m going. I would just like to be happy."

"Some kind of fun lasts longer than others."

"Then the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out I went into a spin and I started to shout I`ve been hit. This is it. This is it! I . . T . . . IT!"

"I don`t even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn`t want them to have any part of my trouble."

"I think things are going to go right for me again. I`m not old. I`m old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail."

"I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton."

"I am not a great singer and I am not a great dancer, but I am a great actress, and nobody ever let me act except [director] Preston Sturges. He believed in me."