To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

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

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

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.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

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.

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.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

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

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

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

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

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.