If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

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.

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

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

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.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.