 All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in. |
| The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do. |
| There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. |
| The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. |
| The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. |
| I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. |
| One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me. |
| The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck. |
| I am a very pragmatic person. |
| I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. |
| I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. |
| We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. |
| After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. |
| Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent. |
| Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. |
| I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. |
| I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. |
| My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell. |
| The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. |
| By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. |
