Frances Farmer

"I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over."

": It's a nuthouse. The other day a man phoned and wanted me to endorse a certain brand of cigarettes. I had nothing against them and in fact will smoke them or anything else that comes along, but I di…"

"If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one."

"There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream."

"It was pretty sad, because for the first time I found how stupid people could be. It sort of made me feel alone in the world. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when th…"

"I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn'…"

"I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick."

"Shedding Light on Shadowland--in-depth essay about Farmer with quotes and rare photos"