One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

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.

The universe is amply supplied with night.

Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

As the Great Magician says, there will always be trouble in the world. That’s why I say, there will always be a time for heroes.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.