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

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

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.

I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.

Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

Not that anyone cares, but there's a right and wrong way to clean a house.