"One director never spoke to me, not even hello in the morning. Mr. Mayer never spoke to me. One day I said, 'Mr. Mayer, why don't you ever say hello to me?' He said, 'Why should I? You're not my wife.…"

"Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake."

"The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true."

"I don't like to be bored."

"To be a star, you have to be above average."