I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.
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.
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life’s ambition is – and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Pray to God and say the lines.
I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
She’s the original good time who was had by all.
Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.
I’ve always liked men better than women.
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.