I Always Say That A Girl Never

If We Have To Tell Hollywood Good-by, It May Be With One Of Those Tender, Old-fashioned, Seven-second Kisses Exchanged Between Two People Of The Opposite Sex, With All Their Clothes On.

When I Was Very Young And First Worked In Hollywood, The Films Had Bred In Me One Sole Ambition: To Get Away From Them; To Live Inthe Great World Outside Movies; To Meet People Who Created Their Own Situations Through Living Them; Who Ad-libbed Their Own Dialogue; Whose Jokes Were Not The Contrivance Of Some Gag Writer.

Tallulah [bankhead] Was The Foremost Naughty Girl Of Her Era But, In Those Days, "naughty" Meant Piquant, Whereas Values Have So Changed That Now, In The 1970s, It Generally Means Nauseating.

Today There Are No Fairy Tales For Us To Believe In, And This Is Possibly A Reason For The Universal Prevalence Of Mental Crack-up. Yes, If We Were Childish In The Past, I Wish We Could Be Children Once Again.

I Don't Like Diabolism So I Stay Away From Things Like Clockwork Orange. I Think Diabolism Is Awfully Childish. I Don't Even Want To See The Godfather. I Couldn't Stand Seeing That Horse's Head Cut Off. I Wouldn't Mind If It Were Marlon Brando's.