If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

Be afraid of nothing.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

The finest mode of transport known to man.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

Where does she get all the energy? Where does he get all the energy? Nobody GET's energy. Everybody releases energy.

I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.