I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?
I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, so...
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to...
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Without discipline there's no life at all.
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
[Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage.
I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
