There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

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.'

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.