I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.