The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.
It’s not an old movie if you haven’t seen it.
Acting is a life of rejection.
Stardom isn’t a profession, it’s an accident.
Growing up takes longer than you think.
I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.
No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.
If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.
I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.
When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise.
How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy.
One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.
Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you’re a liberal. You do not have a small mind.
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.
Men need to feel important. They feel better when they’re with younger girls or unknown girls.
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
I’m total, total, total liberal and proud of it.
I hope I’m thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way – someone who is a human being as well as an actress.
I am essentially a loner.
I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, ‘I don’t ever remember seeing you with an apron on.’ And I thought, that’s right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.