Jane Arthur

Quotes

• “I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.”
• “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.”
• “The fact that I did not marry George Bernard Shaw is the only real disappointment I've had.”
• “[on Hollywood] I hated the place - not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.”
• “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.”
• “(on doing interviews) Quite frankly, I'd rather have my throat slit.”

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