“Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they’re too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.”

To look back is to relax one’s vigil.

If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

It’s a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It’s all very sad but it’s much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.

I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.

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

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

When you start training camp, you’re building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.