I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

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

You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil." You don't become a world-class villain overnight." -Dr. Impossible

If I'm going to lose, I'd rather lose on my own accord.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

War is a trade of kings.

La musique avant toute chose.

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.