- [last words] Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
- You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about--the more you have left when anything happens.
- We who play, who entertain for a few years, what can we leave that will last?
- [on Hollywood] The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy nightmarish set, built up in the desert.
- To be a success an actress must have the face of Venus, the brain of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.
- Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
- [on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
- You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
- [on gossip columnist Walter Winchell] It is a sad commentary on American manhood that Walter Winchell is allowed to exist, and the worst of it is, not only is he published here [New York], but his stuff appears all over the country.
- [about herself and her siblings] We became actors, not because we wanted to go on the stage but because it was the thing we could do best.
- [when rebuffing curtain calls] That's all there is, there isn't any more.
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