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.
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.