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Linda Ellerbee: Styles, like everything...

Linda Ellerbee: Styles, like everything...

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Source: Move On.
-- Linda...

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Patricia Fripp: The day that...

Patricia Fripp: The day that...

The day that you discover that you are in charge of your life is the day you turn your life...

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Marie de Sevigne: When I step...

Marie de Sevigne: When I step...

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

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Pearl Bailey: Children, you must...

Pearl Bailey: Children, you must...

Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A...

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Betty Hutton: I think things...

Betty Hutton: I think things...

I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and...

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Catherine the Great: Power without a...

Catherine the Great: Power without a...

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Lana Turner: You're trying to...

Lana Turner: You're trying to...

You're trying to cheapen me. But you won't. Not me. Oh, I'll make it, Mr. Loomis, but it'll be my...

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Edith Evans: Death is my...

Edith Evans: Death is my...

Death is my neighbour now.

Source: Said a week before her death. BBC radio...

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Katharine Hepburn: Acting is the...

Katharine Hepburn: Acting is the...

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Mary Tyler Moore: Pain nourishes courage....

Mary Tyler Moore: Pain nourishes courage....

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to...

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Raquel Welch: The mind can...

Raquel Welch: The mind can...

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

Source: In Colombo's Hollywood, by J.R....

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Joanna Baillie: O! who shall...

Joanna Baillie: O! who shall...

O! who shall lightly say that fame
is nothing but an empty name?


Source: The...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: We flatter those...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: We flatter those...

We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,/And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those...

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Jane Fonda: Women are not...

Jane Fonda: Women are not...

Women are not forgiven for aging. Bob Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age...

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Barbra Streisand: They're called angels...

Barbra Streisand: They're called angels...

They're called angels because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

Source:...

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Liza Minnelli: It was no...

Liza Minnelli: It was no...

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years -- except they...

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Josephine Baker: I believe in...

Josephine Baker: I believe in...

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

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Alice Childress: I think women...

Alice Childress: I think women...

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep...

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Beth Henley: That's what I...

Beth Henley: That's what I...

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own...

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Beth Henley: He started hating...

Beth Henley: He started hating...

He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes...

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