The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. Discipline is guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

I was never very interested in boys -- and there were plenty of them -- vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Strong women only marry weak men.

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had $15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead in a year.

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.