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

As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.

Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

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.

It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.