Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

Love is nothing but a pain in the ass

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.