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.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

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

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.

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

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