I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

She found herself too visible in silence

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.