“We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.”

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.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

I will never be below the title.

Yes, burn your bridges.

Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you’re called very, very difficult you’re really nobody at all.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.

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

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

The end of one story is the beginning of another.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

If I had known our last kiss was to be our last kiss, I would have kissed you as if it was our first.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.

Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.