I've played everything but a harp.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you imagined it.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.