Me: Stories of My Life

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Listen to the Song of Life

You suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin'--you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin'--you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love...

My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.

Love Katharine Hepburn. Her selfless love to Spencer, with little or no regard for her own needs, wants or care, bothers me. The book while interesting, was not what i expected, yet, the last chapter was the most disturbing, love knows no bounds, she had unconditional love for Spencer, it is a shame it was not reciprocated. she deserved so much more. but she did it out of love. how can you argue with that? i hope her free spirit is still surrounding all of us.

two people who are used to having their own way should stay separate

He was Irish to the fingertips. He could laugh and he could create laughter. He had a funny way of looking at things—at some things, I should say.

It seems to me I discovered what “I love you” really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you. What does this mean? I love you. What does this mean? Think. We use this expression very carelessly. LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.

If you are a member of a big family, you always have someone at hand for golf, tennis, walks, movies. You never have to “find company,” so to speak.

Dad always said if you want to get something, don’t write. Don’t telephone. Be there yourself. In person. Harder to turn down a living presence.

It seems to me I discovered what "I love you" really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you,

So just keep a-goin'-you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.

Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive.

Personal charm is a great help. You can sit there and be an awful ass, but if you have personal charm, you can really put it over on the general public

Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn't interested.

He summed me up very accurately for what I was: a lady, so called-a sort of a snob-and totally insecure.

I'd always wanted to be a boy. Jimmy was my name, if you want to know.

To learn responsibility - each of us has to learn responsibility.

Connecticut. Aren’t we lucky? We have wonderful wildflowers—parks—hills—lovely old houses. We have a pace that we like—sometimes slow—sometimes fast. Rivers—reservoirs—Long Island Sound. A wonderful climate—trees—gardens—snow—rain. And it’s a good size—not huge—not small.

How I miss you two. I was so used to turning to you. It was heaven. Always to have you two to turn to in despair, in joy. There you were: strong—funny. Two rocks. What you did for me—wow! What luck to be born out of love and to live in an atmosphere of warmth and interest.

I loved Spencer Tracy. He and his interests and his demands came first.