There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

Be afraid of nothing.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.

I could stand alone because I knew I was not alone.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

When I was at Pixar, I was in my hole. I was an animator, I had my shots and I was like, "Yeah, I've gotta make this perfect!" It's a very selfish thing.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.