I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I'm proud of my sexuality.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?

A new club is like having a new girlfriend – you don't have feelings straight away

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.