Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

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.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.

It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.