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.
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I’m not going.
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night! – As Margo Channing in All About Eve.
The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.