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Noah, from The Young Lions (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never. Montgomery Clift

[1974, when asked what she thought when she looks at herself after waking up in the morning] Darling, I don't wake up 'til the afternoon. Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department? I was certainly a well-trained dancer. I'm a good actress: I have depth. I have feeling. But they don't care. All they want is the image. After all, a girl is . . . well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it. [on why she divorced Orson Welles] I can't take his genius any more. Rita Hayworth

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. I loved working with Gary Cooper. Gary was my favorite. He was so terrific-looking, and so easy to work with. Those two and a half years on Broadway were the happiest years of my life. I loved the stage. I think every girl who wants to become an actress should put in some years on the stage. I was all right in long shots, but when it came to close-ups, sustained emotion was beyond me. I knew nothing about acting and often wondered why I had not continued with my plan to become a teacher of modern languages. Jean Arthur

[on Cecil B. DeMille, her Samson and Delilah (1949) director] Well, DeMille was a hard taskmaster but a friendly man, warm man. He'd ponder everything and very carefully, and he would talk to you in very serious tones about everything because he considered everything he was doing to be frightfully important, which it was. I'm eternally grateful for the Irish side of me. That's where I got my sense of comedy and whimsy. As for the English half , that's my reserved side. But put me onstage, and the Irish comes out. The combination makes a good mix for acting. Angela Lansbury

[about her time at Twentieth Century-Fox] Leaving Fox was like leaving home at 28; I'd been there since I was 16. Linda Darnell