More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?

I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action