"We called her the Profane Angel because she looked like an angel but she swore like a sailor. She was the only woman I ever knew who could tell a dirty story without losing her femininity." ~film director Mitchell Leisen on Carole Lombard

"I am intrigued by glamorous women.A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to." ~Clark Gable

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you." ~Katharine Hepburn

"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral." ~Rosalind Russell

"Why do actors think they're so goddamn important? They're not. Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is." ~Spencer Tracy

"Love is fire. But whether it will warm your hearth or burn down your house, you never can tell." ~Joan Crawford

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people." ~from My Man Godfrey (1936)