When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous..

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else..

The calla lilies are in bloom again..

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star..

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven..

If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ah….

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you..

Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you..

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him..

You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part..

It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs..

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor..

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done..

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do..

I was fearless...and lawless..

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking..

We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After a….

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother..

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be..

The lack of work destroys people..

I loved Spencer Tracy. I would have done anything for him..