A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life..

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs..

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more..

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts..

I never got a job I didn't create for myself..

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, ….

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself..

The good that men do lives after them..

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!.

You have to have a talent for having talent..

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did --….

To be somebody, you must last..

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added..

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them..

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd list….

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news..

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerv….

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face fac….