"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."
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"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve"
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"[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid."
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"If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person."
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"I will never be below the title."
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"Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs."
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"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."
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"Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three."
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"If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world."
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"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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"I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."
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"Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes."
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"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
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"If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it."
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"Everybody has a heart. Except some people."
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"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."
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"The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about."
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"I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din."
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"Yes, burn your bridges."
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"The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin"
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