I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.