If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

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.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

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

Old age ain't for sissies

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