A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.

I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

In bed we laugh in bed we cry And born in bed in bed we die The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.

Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference.

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.

I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

Life and values do run in cycles.

What is fiction or cinema if not escape?

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.

If you went crazy, would you know it?