You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.Collection: Meaningful
I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.Collection: Fire
I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.Collection: Men
You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.Collection: Thinking
One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.Collection: Cake
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.Collection: Eye
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.Collection: Party
I want to die with my high heels on, still in action.Collection: High Heels
There's only one way to work -- like hell.Collection: Way
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.Collection: Funny
It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Collection: I Miss You
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.Collection: Certain
[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.Collection: Art
Your luck is how you treat people.Collection: People
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.Collection: Experience
She's the original good time who was had by all.Collection: Time
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.Collection: Sex
Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.Collection: Hate
You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'Collection: Way
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About EveCollection: Night
One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.Collection: Thinking
I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.Collection: War
What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.Collection: Important
I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.Collection: Stuck Up
I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.Collection: Sake
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.Collection: Real
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.Collection: Children
I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!Collection: Husband
As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.Collection: Thinking
I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.Collection: Men
They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.Collection: Honesty
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.Collection: Art
I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.Collection: Thinking
Pray to God and say the lines.Collection: Theatre
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.Collection: Movie
If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.Collection: Work Out
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffinCollection: Inspiration
If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.Collection: Children
Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.Collection: Evil People
Yes, burn your bridges.Collection: Relationship
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.Collection: Artist
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.Collection: Doors
I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.Collection: Generations
It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays.Collection: Sex
The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.Collection: Real
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.Collection: Names
I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.Collection: Winning
I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.Collection: Food