I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.