Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

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.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

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

I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.