“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.”

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

Pray to God and say the lines.

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

Success only breeds a new goal

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I’ve lost my faith in science.

If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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’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.

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.

I like to ask a lot of questions to my employees, to learn about what they do and how they do.