I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are messy about it, particularly about their lipstick. I don't mind wiping lipstick off myself, but I hate seeing it on cigarettes, napkins and coffee cups! I don't like women with all their beauty machinery showing-curlers, cold cream, mascara brushes. I'd even prefer to not see a woman touch up her lipstick, but I guess that's expecting too much.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.