Character is what you have when nobody is looking..

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette..

The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope yo….

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, ….

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take….

Only a few things are really important..

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards..

I'll have my double chins in privacy..

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly..

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is wort….

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh..

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the ho….

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features..

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many w….

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final..

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole..

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old..

You're only as good as your last picture..