My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.
From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.
In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.
There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.
I'm a woman who wants to reach out and take 40 million people in her arms.
It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
I think that I have every right to write a book. I think I'm interesting. I have perspective about me.
I'm the original take-orders girl.
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
