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 never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

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.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

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

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.

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.