If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.

I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.

It's a strenuous job every day of your life to live up to the way you look on the screen.

I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.

I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

You can create the best out of your life by understanding the wealth of time and converting that time into the life that you were created to live.

Sometimes the best way out of darkness is into it.

My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

You never imagine that when you say hello to someone and you fall in love, that some day you'll have to say goodbye.

It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.