I myself think that I know everything, that I don't need anybody's help.

Sometimes when you go out in public, some older people will give you dirty looks. They don't think highly of us.

There are so many more interesting things to think about than whether Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman got the roles I should have gotten.

People who are left out of these shows feel that they are left out of the writing of history and that it's determined by the luck of the draw.

When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.

They've walked for nearly a block when he stops short and looks at her. They are in the middle of the sidewalk, face to face, between a tobacco shop and a trash can. Everything they've never said flows into the narrow space between them. Isabel feels the passing of time acutely, like a flood coming and only so much time to gather up the most important things.