Elsa Lanchester

"She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth—or anywhere else."

"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingerprints."

"The most memorable thing I did in that film, I believe, was my screaming. In almost all my movies since, I've been called upon to scream. I don't know if it's by chance, but I would like to think that I'm not hired for that talent alone."

"I remember another solo trip, on the Berengaria, sailing from New York to Southampton. It was during Prohibition, and two acquaintances were aboard, fellows who were connected with a museum. I had brought a bottle of Scotch with me, and I used it to tempt them to talk. Like a sort of truth serum. Well, one of these fellows confided in me that he liked to wear a tiger-skin belt next to his skin — inside out, with the fur next to him. Facts like that make one feel blue-eyed and normal."

"She's better on stage, from a distance. On a screen, close up, she makes you want to dive for cover."

"Stardom is all hard work, aspirins and purgatives."