One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

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.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'