“To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.”

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.

I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I know when I’m working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

Mr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!