Imagination is the highest kite one can fly

I’ve always felt that work – learning from people who know more than I know – is what keeps you going.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

I’m not a sedentary person. I’ve always been active.

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for,...

They’re guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we’ve done that, been there, and we don’t want to do that any more.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting – because I don’t live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are – that you can’t ignore it. But I...

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor’s place because actors, it belongs to you.

The purity of Jewish upbringing is the restrictions that one carries through life being a “nice Jewish girl” — what a burden!

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they’re with younger girls or unknown girls.

It’s just a fact of life that I don’t think I’ve ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don’t know why.

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I...

Stardom isn’t a profession; it’s an accident.

Stardom isn’t a profession, it’s an accident.

Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, ‘Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?’ ‘Well, yes, I think I was,’ I reply.

I’m not the public.

You are welcoming to everyone when you’re a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives – you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup...

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

I hope I’m thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way – someone who is...

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the...

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants...

For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I’m not wearing make-up.

I’m a fan. My grandchildren are fans. I wish I’d written the books.

God – if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.

I called my business manager in California and said, ‘Sell all of my stock’ – what little of it I had – and it’s the only smart financial move I ever made.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

When everything happens to you when you’re so young, you’re very lucky, but by the same token, you’re never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your...

I suppose there are times when I can’t believe that I’ve lived the way that I have and done the things that I’ve done. Life’s a joke anyway. It’s all ridiculous. It’s all so short.

I have a built-in antenna.

Patience was not my strong point.

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I’m also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Generally women are better than men — they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with...

I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

I loved reading Grimm’s fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only...

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I don’t look in the mirror; don’t like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I’ve just never been enamoured of my...

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man – never even look sideways at another woman’s fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn’t I?

I don’t sit around thinking that I’d like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with...

I like to work with really good professional people – anyone with real talent.

You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now.

Film is not a woman’s medium. If you weren’t the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

I’m not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I’ve built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time,...

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she’s on the slide. It’s downhill all the way from then on. It doesn’t give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it ‘content.’

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.