- [on her parents] I wasn't allowed to do what most kids were allowed to do. My mother pushed me, but my father was kind of in awe of me. He really didn't know quite what to do with it all. But my mother was definitely a motion picture mother. She loved the motion picture.
- [on her education] Schooling brought me a lot of confusion when I was very small because I was still in public school. When I was in school I wanted to be back acting, and when I was acting I wanted to be back in public school. Later on we had schooling on the lot. For Shirley Temple it worked great, for Jane Withers it worked great, but I was one of those kids who didn't like school.
- [on her family] I don't know if I could have done as well as my mother did had the tables been reversed, but she did love me way too much and it did cause trouble and jealousy with my brothers and sister. I can understand today how they must have felt. It was always, "Marcia Mae has to go to work, Marcia Mae's making the money".
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