If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don`t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

I have loved and been in love. There`s a big difference. (1993)

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Without discipline, there`s no life at all.

[1954 comment on Judy Holliday] My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she`s so -- so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They`re the best.

[on Peter O`Toole] He can do anything. A bit cuckoo, but sweet and terribly funny.

[on Humphrey Bogart] He was a real man -- nothing feminine about him. He knew he was a natural aristocrat -- better than anybody.

[on Humphrey Bogart] Bogart was like Henry Fonda -- proud and happy to be an actor.

[on director George Cukor] He has the ability to make me trust myself.

[On Marlon Brando]: I don`t think he`s a limited actor at all - I think he`s a very gifted actor. Although, I`m afraid he may be a limited person.

[When Barbara Walters asked her if she owned a skirt] "I have one Ms. Walters. I`ll wear it to your funeral".

[When asked what star quality is] "It`s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don`t know what it is, but whatever it is, I`ve got it."

[Describing Cary Grant]: "He is personality functioning".

"The lack of work destroys people." (1993)

"In some ways I`ve lived my life like a man, made my own decisions etc.. I`ve been as terrified as the next person, but you`ve got to keep going." (1993)

`Isn`t it fun getting older` is really a terrible fallacy. That`s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tyre.

"I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was."

"I don`t fear death, it must be like a long sleep."

"Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature."

"Listen to the song of life."

"I`m what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don`t fear the next world, or anything. I don`t fear hell, and I don`t look forward to heaven."

"I`m an atheist, and that`s it. I believe there`s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other."

"I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!"

"I have many regrets, and I`m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don`t regret them, maybe you`re stupid."

"I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition."

"Enemies are so stimulating."

"If you survive long enough, you`re revered - rather like an old building."

"It`s life isn`t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I`ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh."

"Life`s what`s important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting`s just waiting for a custard pie. That`s all."

"The lack of work destroys people."

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don`t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself."

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior."

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they`re good - or because they`re lucky."

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."

"It`s a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you`ve begun to rot."

"Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you`re someone else and at the same time selling yourself."

"Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That`s what I`ve done."

"Life is full of censorship. I can`t spit in your eye."

"I remember as a child going around with Votes For Women balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause."

"I find a woman`s point of view much grander and finer than a man`s."

"With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I`d done more, I could have been quite remarkable."

"At my age, you don`t get much variety - usually some old nut who`s off her track."

On marriage: "It`s bloody impractical. `To love, honor, and obey.` If it weren`t, you wouldn`t have to sign a contract."

"My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn`t come to any conclusions about it at all."

On fashion: "I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear."

"Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. `Beat it,` I said, `go sit on a tack!` `We made you,` they said. `Like hell you did,` I told them."

"Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn`t have to talk to you."

"I can`t say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that`s something you CAN win."

On Hollywood: "They didn`t like me until I got into a leg show."

"There are no laurels in life...just new challenges."

"Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer."

"I`ve been loved, and I`ve been in love. There`s a big difference."

"I often wonder whether men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

"Love` has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."

"I don`t regret anything I`ve ever done; As long as I enjoyed it at the time."

"Wouldn`t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?"

"I`m a personality as well as an actress. Show me an actress who isn`t a personality, and you`ll show me a woman who isn`t a star."

"People have grown fond of me, like some old building."