“Enemies are so stimulating.”
“Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.”
“Without discipline, there is no life at all.”
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
“As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.”
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”
“It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.”
“Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.”
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
“To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.”
“My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.”
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
“The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.”
“Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.”
“The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”
“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret, if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.”