Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.