I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.

If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done?

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.