The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

You know, I've had a helluva life.

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.