"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

"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."

"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."

"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."

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

"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart."

"I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?"

"If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing."

"Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left."

"Be yourself. The world worships the original."

"I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman."

"I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside."

"Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress."