Stars didn't have to worry as they were on long term contracts and were able to enjoy their vacations without worrying about tomorrow. Few had financial worries due to large incomes and little taxes.

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

I understood early that beauty was power.

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

That's the thing about faith. It works.

Camp is always all business.

Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse