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

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.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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

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

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