When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

[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?

Choose your clothes for your way of life.

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.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else

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

The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.