“Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.”

“I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.”

“When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.”

“Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.”

“Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings”

“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?”

“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”

“The deep of night is crept upon our talk,And Nature must obey necessity.”

“You lack the season of all natures, sleep.”

“Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.”

“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.”

“Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.”