I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

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.

Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart.

These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love.

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.