Audiences always sound like they’re glad to see me, and I’m damned glad to see them.

I know what’s best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

If I couldn’t laugh, I’d rather die.

I’ve always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don’t.

Most of us don’t know about happiness until it’s over.

Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.

I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy – period.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can’t think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

Men don’t get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

The casting couch? There’s only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.