I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Acting is a form of confession.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Acting is a form of confusion.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Its the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes—only sooner.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have time.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.

My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.

Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their coarse and nauseous colors near.

I've been fortunate because I got the gift to do comedy and drama. When you can do both, you get twice as many parts as anyone else.

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.

Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

Life is good. Yes, it's great.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

You don't try to do more than you should.

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.