"For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. When I got two Oscars, they thought 'Oh, they can throw me into anything'. I was a machine, practically a tool in a big, big factory, and I could not do anything. And so I left. I just went away. I fled. Yes, I fled."

(Luise Rainer, attrice; Düsseldorf, 12 gennaio 1910 – Londra, 30 dicembre 2014)