Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.