My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

The practice of deception is foolishness because the truth always eventually surfaces.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.