Old age is no place for sissies.
Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
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'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
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.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
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.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Strong women only marry weak men.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
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.
