If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a cigarette for you, you could look up. It's the most dramatic thing in the world because it's intimate, it's suggestive, and that's one of the problems with giving it up, is that it's a very useful tool.

If you want me just whistle. You know how to whistle don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

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

The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.