I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard' was autobiographical. I've got nobody floating in my swimming pool.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.