"My acting was only average. I wasn't dedicated. Starting as a tot and working for twenty years was long enough, so I quit. The fan mail still arrives . . . why, I don't know."

(Anne Shirley, nome d'arte di Dawn Evelyeen Paris, conosciuta come Dawn O'Day da bambina, attrice; New York, 17 aprile 1918 – Los Angeles, 4 luglio 1993)