I had always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form... a beautiful house, beautiful man, a beautiful life and image. I was ambitious to get the money which would attain all that for me.

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

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

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.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

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.

Be afraid of nothing.