Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.
Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.
I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.
If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.
I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.
We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
The moral person contemplates evil, the evil person commits it. And a person without a sense of humor can't distinguish between the two. . . . I know a lot of people who live in Marin County and contemplate spirituality and never get out of the hot tub.