You want success and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Diamonds never leave you... men do!

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me ... I would die.

You don't get older, you get better.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.