“I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.”

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.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.

I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

Boys laugh at what they put girls through – but they won’t be laughing when – they’re wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.