How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants pow… - Luise Rainer

I was nobody to make a pass to. I was very thin like a boy and I was very un-sexy.

I had a wonderful director, Sidney Franklin .... I worked from inside out. It's not for me, putting on a face, or putting on makeup, or making masquerade. It has to come from inside out. I knew what I wanted to do and he let me do it. Hollywood was a very strange place. To me, it was like a huge hotel with a huge door, one of those rotunda doors. On one side people went in, heads high, and very soon they came out on the other side, heads hanging.

I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.