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

You know, I've had a helluva life.

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

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

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.

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.

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.