“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.”

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

Getting old is not for sissies.

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

There’s only one way to work — like hell.

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

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.

She’s the original good time who was had by all.

Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

It’s really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

Your body’s made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

My spirit animal is a monkey. Because I have really long arms and I like being up high.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

Don’t wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

I think that people who don’t like animals tend to be selfish, but I’m biased.