“Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.”

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.

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.

How can I protect something so perfect without evil.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

Evil comes from a failure to think.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.