Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.