I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

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.

I've lost my faith in science.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Strong women only marry weak men.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

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.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

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 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.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

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.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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've always liked men better than women.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

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.