Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only.

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

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.

Sensitive husbands don't like second billing.

If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide.

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.

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