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“You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? "She did it the hard way."” (grave)
“I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.” (unknown)
“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.” (children)
“She is the original good time that was had by all.” (time)
“Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone / but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.” (love)
“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” (work)
“Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.” (acting and actors)
“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.” (acting and actors)
“People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.” (acting and actors)
“I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.” (order)
“Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.” (actors)
“That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.” (unknown)
“To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.” (dreams)
“Strong women only marry weak men.” (marriage)
“An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.” (marriage)
“Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.” (analysis)
“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” (world)
“We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?” (unknown)
“Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.” (life)
“The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” (unknown)
“Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.” (unknown)
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