"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."

“Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.”

“Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.”

“To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said — 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.”

“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”

“When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.”

“To a young actor: How tall are you without your horse? Six foot, seven inches. Never mind the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches!”