It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
I’ve lost my faith in science.
You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
I was thought to be ‘stuck up.’ I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.
I will never be below the title.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.