When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.

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.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

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

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.