I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It’s really funny the way that some people don’t give kids enough credit for...

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

We have to support our own films. If we don’t, how can we expect others to support them?

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That’s the same as advice, isn’t it?

When it was over my daughter said, ‘Oh, I felt so sorry for him – he didn’t want to hurt you, he liked you.’ That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top...

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

I like shopping, and I like to drive.

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

I can’t wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn’t the first consideration.

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you’re going to say it.

I’ve been careful to keep my life separate because it’s important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I’m worth...

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It’s really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But...

Having an education is invaluable.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved...

If my mom reads that I’m grammatically incorrect I’ll have hell to pay.

I don’t think I’ll ever be a producer who’s into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don’t like that part. I’m much more interested in the material.

I can’t get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

But I’ve always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn’t be played past a certain age.

I like somebody who makes me laugh. He’s also got to be prepared – I’m sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me...

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those...

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I plays Joe’s best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don’t get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

The point of our demographics is that we’re not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we’re not going to have the population.

I think that’s very sad, that I haven’t allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

It’s rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

You’re better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn’t wanna wander from the stable at night.

I don’t see myself being an actress forever.

We don’t really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that’s so fascinating to me.

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You’d use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of...

Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.

Anybody can say she’s an actress. It’s another thing to get a job.

I haven’t tucked a sock in my pants for three years.

I’ve gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.