I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.

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.

You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.

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

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.