all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

Be afraid of nothing.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

You got to be brave and have courage, believe in yourself, because that is the first thing to success is believe in yourself.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.