The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.