You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

[Katharine Hepburn] was much stronger, much more opinionated than I am or ever was, and it was considered attractive on her. But not on me. I don't know. Maybe her Bryn Mawr accent was more appealing than mine.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.