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

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

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.

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

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.

You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.

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