You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

I always know my lines.

My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

I'm not a film star; I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.