I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
I think early in my career, I didn't choose films that were crappy films, necessarily, but I didn't go out and campaign for smaller, better roles.
In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.
I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.
I never had a great role in a great film.
I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.
I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.
My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.