Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.