They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

I work to stay alive.

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.