I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t...

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

I know when I’m working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less...

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.

Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.

I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question – do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.

I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It’s OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

I have never seen a wrestling match or prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.