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.

A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

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)

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.