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.

You do not need ‪God‬ to tell you what is right. You have a heart - follow that.

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.

I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it.

No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.

I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.

I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things.