Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

I've lost my faith in science.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Strong women only marry weak men.

I've always liked men better than women.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.