In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

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

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.