The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.

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.