“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.”

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.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes, if you’re hated by the right people.

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

I’d just like to think that there’s some kind of underworld where whoever’s been lost at sea is there… I dunno, there probably isn’t, but I’d like to believe there is.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

Once you believe in who you are and who you were born to be, it can be very powerful.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.