I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.