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

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

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. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

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!

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.