Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

Sensitive husbands don't like second billing. I don't believe Franchot ever for a moment resented the fact that I was a star. Possibly he resented Hollywood's refusal to let him forget it. There was never a doubt in my mind that his talent was greater than mine.

Choose your clothes for your way of life.

[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?

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

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

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