“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don’t enjoy it even now.

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

I’d rather go to jail than give the hunters a penny.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

I am against marriage, and I don’t give a fig for society.

It is better to be Unfaithful, than Faithful without wanting to be.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves..

The world today doesn’t please me.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can’t find a way of avoiding it.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

I never get hung up on the past – the memories are too negative.

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

When my world grows dark I remember: Every light begins with a spark.

The moment I am sure that I know is also the moment I cease to grow.

I’ve put my life back together, but it’s all a growing process and that’s neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to – growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

Dreams can grow from nightmares.