Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.