“I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.”

“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.”

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”

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

“I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.”

“I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.”

“The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.”

“I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.”

“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.”

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”