By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.
Many people consider me an old friend.
One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'.
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.
I've always been bossy.
I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.
I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.
Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.
Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.
Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.
I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.
I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.
[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.
Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.
We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.
Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.
I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.
Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.
We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.
