On the outside one is a star. But in reality one is completely alone doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth

Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to.

The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!