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

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.

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.

I could live without my phone. And one thing I’d love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the ’80s.

While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Break me. Until there’s nothing left and I’ll be free.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love there is your treasure.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.