I like to work with really good professional people – anyone with real talent.
Howard Hawks said he’d like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, “Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch.”
I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: ‘Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!’
God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.
After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you’re pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
They think actors are freaks – that we’re a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I’m in control of every situation. I’m rarely in control of any situation.
His attention span was not long, shall we say?
I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, ‘Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?’ ‘Well, yes, I think I was,’ I reply.
I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.
No, I’m afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I’d end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I’ll just stick with this one for a while and take my chances. I’ll be brave.
Find me a man who’s interesting enough to have dinner with and I’ll be happy.
A planned life is a dead life.
People should tell your children what life is all about – it’s about work...
Always I’m feeling, ‘You’re never going to work again.’ That’s going to happen one day, but I hope I’m not alive.
As long as I can walk and talk, I’ll try almost anything. I say “almost” because the high wire is definitely out.
If goodness is its own reward, shouldn’t we get a little something for being naughty?
I’m not a sedentary person. I’ve always been active.