I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.