I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.

I'm scared of snakebites - that's the origin of cowboy boots, protection - but my toes need to breathe.

It's as though Trump has the charisma, the pied-piper effect, and could lead the whole nation off the cliff, and they would think they were on the way to Disney World.

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

I was just glad to be going to work again.

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.