“With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn’t consider dying.”

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring. I ought to know.

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn’t have had a career.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable. I suppose I’m larger than life.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.

I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box.

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

You can lose everything but you can’t lose your talent!

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.

It’s better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, ‘It is finished!’ He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.