Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

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.

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.

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

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

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