[Talking to critics about her reviews for "The Mask of Virtue" (1935), her second play on the London stage] "It`s much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."
All day long you`re really leading up to the evening`s performance. To time everything correctly, you have to take care of yourself-which is a very difficult thing to do, because it`s highly emotional
[on Alexander Korda] "Alex was like a father to us - we went to see him with every little problem we had. We usually left convinced that he had solved it - or that we`d got our own way."
[when asked to take over Joan Crawford`s role in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)] "No, thank you. I can just about stand looking at Joan Crawford`s face at six o`clock in the morning, but not Bette Davis."