I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Getting old is not for sissies.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

I was born a sheep & I cannot be a goat through pledge of hands.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

I was eating some candy and looked on the wrapper, and it said made from natural and artificial flavors. You could just say flavors.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.

I never asked to be born in the first place.

The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos.

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

Don't ever hit a person first, but if anybody ever puts their hands on you, you hit them right between the eyes.

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.