Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone.
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don’t need to know about men. It’s the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Enemies are so stimulating.
You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
Two of an actress’s greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.