There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

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.

jerk.smokes cigars.will die of lung cancer, hopefully soon.excellent physical shape.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

I was just an okay person.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.

They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.