Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.
As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.
I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
I couldn't have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in.
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.