“You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.”

“Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.”

“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwords comes out shooting the wounded.”

“A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon!”

“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”

“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.”

“I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.”