I don’t think of myself as a character actress – that’s become a phrase which means you’ve had it.
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.
I have been at war from the beginning. I’ve never looked back before. I’ve never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
I work to stay alive.
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.
They say that in Hollywood one can’t be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it’s just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day’s work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.
I believe one should be a woman at home.
I don’t think in business it matters whether you’re a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain I think.
As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
I think it’s just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.