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Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.
The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve
You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.