“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

“I’ve never sought success in order to get fame and money; it’s the talent and the passion that count in success.”

“I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”

“It is not whether you really cry. It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying.”

“I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.” New York Times, April 20, 1975.

“I’ve gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.”