“I didn’t forget your breakfast. I didn’t bring your breakfast. Because you didn’t eat your din-din.”

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.

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.

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

If I don’t eat soon, I’ll die of hunger; and if I die, I won’t eat soon.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food they’ve eaten.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

When the food at home is so tasty, why go out and eat?

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.