I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.

I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.

Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.

In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

Fate keeps on happening.

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.