People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.
One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
She did it the hard way.
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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.