My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. …

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying throu…

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.