When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.

Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.

We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie [Humphrey Bogart], James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart].

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

A planned life is a dead life.

God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.