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.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

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

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.

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

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?