A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?