Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.
I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.
For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
But painting can be too lonely. . . I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
Ben locked his eyes on mine for a long moment. Then, “How?” “How do you think?” I smiled, then slapped him full across the face
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.
What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say