[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

- Joan Fontaine

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

- Joan Fontaine

I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.

- Joan Fontaine

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to …

- Joan Fontaine

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's inten…

- Joan Fontaine

The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll …

- Joan Fontaine

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

- Joan Fontaine

You know, I've had a helluva life.

- Joan Fontaine

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

- Joan Fontaine