I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

You should never say "never."

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!