I've always loved a challenge.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Where wolves live, the forest is healthy

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.

My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.

I expected to have one husband and seven babies. Instead I had seven husbands and one living baby.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.

Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.

The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.

That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.

If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'

The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

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