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

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.

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.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

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 secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

I wouldn’t piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

My roots tell secrets my mind will never know but my soul remembers and that is more than enough.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

You make my life meaningful, she smiled at the woman looking at her in the mirror.

Many mirrors would shatter if they were able to reflect the images of our hearts.

We don’t get to choose how we break but we get to choose how we rebuild.

Though I crave roots grown deep, the truth is I’m something of a wanderer.

I’m a romantic with a wild heart that loves deep like the poet in me.