"I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse."

"The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue."

"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."

"I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them."

"To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway."

"To master the mind is to understand that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business."

"I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer."