Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.

[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 never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.

While making "Possessed", I wept each morning on my drive to the studio, and I wept all the way back home. I found it impossible to sleep at night, so I'd lie in bed contemplating the future. I fear it with all my heart and soul even as I fear the dark.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.