“If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.”

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 want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

In my career, I’m very grateful for the opportunities.

T.I.’s my mentor; he’s a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He’s helped me with my career.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that – if it is only arranging a window blind!