I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

A humble man will always receive the best that others have to offer

There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

There are many new sinners today, but there aren’t any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.

Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country.

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.