Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

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

There's only one way to work -- like hell.

Getting old is not for sissies.

One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.