Jean Arthur
I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.Collection: Children
I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.Collection: Want
I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.Collection: Sinking
It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.Collection: Jobs
If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.Collection: Ocean
I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.Collection: Magazines