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.

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.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

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.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

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