"'In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You wa…"

"The act of sex, gratifying though it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superinte…"

"That picture clinched my future as far as Universal was concerned. They felt that as I had not emerged as a glamour g…"

"What a dump."

"To look back is to relax one's vigil."

"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life."

"I think it was that picture, more than anything else, that gave me a horror of nobility. Ever since then I have fough…"

"I think Mr. Reagan has done very well under very difficult circumstances. He's had terrific problems physically and h…"

"I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived."