It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

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

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

Your luck is how you treat people.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

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.