Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg.

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault.

Life is not about having and getting. It's about being and becoming.

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

I had these slinky eyes and a sense of humor.

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.

I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.

I got rid of all those reporters.

we do not write as we want but as we can

Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.

If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

If't were not for my cat and dog I think I could not live.

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

I could have missed the pain but I'd of had to miss the dance.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.