If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
You know what I’m going to have on my gravestone? ‘She did it the hard way.’
I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.
Your luck is how you treat people.
Yes, burn your bridges.
You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!
I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
I work to stay alive.
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.