Quotes

I soon realized I was not cut out to be a schoolteacher, which is what it was assumed I would be. Every time I saw Ruth Wells I longed to be, like her, "in the profession". Finally, Mother saw I was making myself and everybody else miserable so she told me I could try my luck and at least get it out of my system.

I wanted to be somebody and was utterly miserable at high school. I had nothing in common with the other girls. All they thought about were good times, pretty clothes and boys. I was there to work. I left high school in my third year and decided I was going to succeed in pictures.

Madge Kennedy was absolutely marvelous to me [on A Perfect Lady (1918)]. It was the first and only time a star deliberately turned her back to the camera and gave me the scene. Miss Kennedy did it not once but several times, until the director [Clarence G. Badger] reminded her that she was the star audiences paid money to see.

[on New York] I was born here, but I like California so much better that I want to get back to the Coast as fast as I can. I hate New York.

I think shopping is a bore. I'm always delighted when I have a character part to do so I don't have to bother with clothes.