I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?