I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.