I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.Collection: Health
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.Collection: Dad
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.Collection: Parenting
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.Collection: Fitness
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.Collection: Death
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.Collection: Failure
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.Collection: Romantic
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.
After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.Collection: Inspirational
I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.Collection: Thinking