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.

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

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.

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

I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

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

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.