“Good actors I’ve worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.”

Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

You know what nostalgia is, don’t you? It’s basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.

The world’s all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That’s what writers are thinking about because that’s what the world is thinking about.

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.

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.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.

You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.

I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Changing your name is not gonna change our set of arrangements.

Together we are strong.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.