 An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. |
| Old age is no place for sissies. |
| The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead. |
| People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else. |
| Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. Topics: Life |
| Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. |
| I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. |
| Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition. |
| I've lost my faith in science. |
| 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. |
| Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. |
| Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism. |
| I am just too much. |
| I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. |
| 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. |
| A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. |
| I work to stay alive. |
| In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! |
| I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. |
| I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed. |
