As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.

That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

I've played everything but a harp.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

I always have the best of everything.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

Everybody wants what feels good; and if we wish a symphony of attention from a bunch of caring people and a harmony of happy sounds during our lifetime, we must not act like dark horses, saving up our emotions, but be bountiful to all significant others.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with them after seeing my cousin's school. Honestly, I just wanted to go to a school where I didn't have to wear uniforms, and my mom said okay.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.

Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.

Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.

I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.

A morning walk gives the body a chance to forgive the trials and tribulations of yesterday, to shed its rubbish and mental clutter.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.