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.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

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.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

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