The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

You are never too old to become younger!

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.