One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

People who think about the past have no future.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.

Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees—or seeing what he believes. Either way.

The world is bound in secret knots.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.