I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

Dammit, don't you dare ask God to help me!

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

If you throw a lamb chop in the oven, what's to keep it from getting done?

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.

They were grooming Doris Day to take over the top spot. Jack L. Warner asked me to play her sister in one picture. I said, "Come on, Jack. No one could ever believe that I would have Doris Day for a sister."

The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.