In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

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.

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.

How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about?

When asked for the details of an ideal date, I answered, "I want him to take me to a book store, so he can see just how happy I can be.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value