Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it. - Anne Baxter

Acting is not what I do. It's what I am. It's my permanent, built-in cathedral.

Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.

I can report was twice as acerbic in person than on camera as Addison Dewitt. He was just plain nasty to poor Marilyn Monroe, who was always quaking in her boots. He'd pat her on the rump and say, "You almost got through that two-line speech, my dear. Shall we try again?"