I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
Old age is no place for sissies.