People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature—and it won’t hurt your feelings—like it’s happening to your clothing.

Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

I just want to be wonderful.

A career is born in public—talent in privacy.

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

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

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.