[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.