"You never feel lack of an audience when Mr. Lubitsch directs you, for he will, if he likes what you're doing, call the electricians, the prop boys-- anyone within hailing distance-- and say, 'That's fine. Clap hands.'"

"The most important thing in life is to have friends who sit around the fire with you and talk-- and talk-- until someone says, 'My Lord, it is dawn!'"

"The worst thing a man could be is a bad lover."

"I'm a bad judge of a play or film."

"If I had to do it over again, I'd do everything different."

"Just send each creditor ten dollars. It shows willingness to pay. You never have a problem then."

"I have a little weakness for newspapermen. And I think foreign correspondents are the world's glamor boys. I do like the slouch hats and the wonderful stories they tell."

"What's the use of being in the movies if we can't have champagne?"

"When I started I was so excited with myself-- making fifteen hundred dollars a week and not knowing what to do with it. I think I was self-centered and selfish, but I was a natural youthful thing."

"Ah, Lubitsch... there was only one of him... No, he didn't help my career... He made my career!"

"There was no sense of Mission in Life attached to it. I'm not passionately maternal. I didn't yearn for the patter of little feet. I wasn't lonely. I don't have time to be lonely. I just felt, I suppose, that it was nicer to have a baby in the house than not to have a baby in the house... So I adopted a baby."