Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
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“I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.”
“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“Success only breeds a new goal”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.”
“Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve”
“The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.”
“There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.”
“You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'”
“There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.”
“Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.”
“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.”
“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”
“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.”
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
Source: The lonely life: an autobiography