There’s only one way to work – like hell.
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
The real actor – like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse – all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
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!