You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety--not even joy.

Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much.