If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

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

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.

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

[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?

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.