Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

His (Frank Sinatra) attention span was not long, shall we say.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If you photograph well, that's enough. I have a terrible time distinguishing one from another. Girls wear their hair the same, and are much too anorexic-looking.