no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

America - the best poor man's country in the world.

Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

Please don't assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow.

I don't date rock 'n' rollers. I just marry them.

In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.

Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions.

Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.