I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
I can’t say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race – that’s something you CAN win.
You never feel that you have fame. It’s always in back of you.
My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn’t come to any conclusions about it at all.
I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
Don’t give in! Make your own trail. Don’t moan. Don’t complain. Think positively.
I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.
I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.
Show me an actress who isn’t a personality and I’ll show you a woman who isn’t a star.
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn’t have to talk to you.
If you survive long enough, you’re revered-rather like an old building.
How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers – I thought. The wives.
Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.