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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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