Actress Quotes

Archers are pretty focused.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I am just too much.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Old age is no place for sissies.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

You never know about life.