I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.