“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.”

I’ve been lucky. I’ll be lucky again.

Strong women only marry weak men.

In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.

I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

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.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Be nice to everyone, always smile, and appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.

Doing good and being good; are two different things. The first is a shirt we put on, take off. The latter is our skin.

That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.

Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh, thank goodness… I thought I’d lost it.

When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!