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Let's face it: I want it all
just like you and everybody else. It may not be in the cards, but the prospect is so dazzling that I have to try.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

His attention span was not long, shall we say?

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought

I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it ... I'm liberal. The L word!

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

From my own self-analysis, which I seldom indulge in, I am what I am.

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.

A planned life is a dead life.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

People should tell your children what life is all about
it's about work ...

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.

I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.

Half of life's problems disappear when one's head is healthy.

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

Patience was not my strong point.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen ... Growing up takes longer than you think.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

You can't always be a leading lady.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up.

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

I was this flat-chested, big-footed, lanky thing.

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

Acting is a life of rejection.

I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

I was never my favourite subject.

The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?

"My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."

If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?

How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.