[ Declining an invitation to a party :]

[ Responding to a question about whether she had posed for a calendar in 1947 with nothing on :] I had the radio on.

A career is born in public—talent in privacy.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.