People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

I was fearless...and lawless.