Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.