I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.