Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.