“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.”

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.

I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I know when I’m working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

Mr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Leadership does not mean domination.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.

Set goals – high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.