Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

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.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.