"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."

"I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have."

"This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America."

"I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave."

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

"I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor."

"The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition."

"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."