I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Getting old is not for sissies.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.

Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.

I'm just somebody that isn't that impressed by [Michael Jordan]. There really isn't anybody in the world I'm impressed with.

We always have a choice.