Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

- Claudette Colbert

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

- Claudette Colbert

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

- Claudette Colbert

Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

- Claudette Colbert

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

- Claudette Colbert

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

- Claudette Colbert

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

- Claudette Colbert

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

- Claudette Colbert

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

- Claudette Colbert