Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?