Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

You know, I've had a helluva life.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.

Hunger is the best sauce.

I don't go by the rule book-I lead from the heart not the head.

Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

Tatiana's eyes were huge and poison-green, eyes with enough pain in them to eat away at a world and devour a soul.

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.