Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

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.

Passion is an intense feeling of conviction and a strong desire or devotion to an activity or concept.

Be as good as you would want to follow yourself.

Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the note you play, it's about the note you play next.

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

If the shoe fits, wear it.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.