I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
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.
The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.
Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.
Success only breeds a new goal.
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.
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.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.
I don’t think of myself as a character actress – that’s become a phrase which means you’ve had it.
In this rat-race everybody’s guilty till proved innocent!
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.
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.
Sex is God’s joke on human beings.
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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.
Strong women only marry weak men.
I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.