I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.