The purity of Jewish upbringing – the restrictions that one carries through life being a ‘nice Jewish girl’ – what a burden.
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?
A woman isn’t complete without a man. But where do you find a man – a real man – these days?
I’m not a sedentary person. I’ve always been active.
I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
Actors today go into TV, which I don’t consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that’s enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.
You can’t always be a leading lady.
Patience was not my strong point.
We live in an age of mediocrity.
I don’t sit around thinking that I’d like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.
I don’t think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don’t look it.
Actors today go into TV, which I don’t consider has a lot to do with acting.
I think I’m damn lucky. I’m lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven’t ended up in jail, that they’re all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.