If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.