"Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over."

"I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't."

"Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them. If they want you, you want to do it."

"I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody."

In response to an invitation to write an autobiography - "Books written by actresses are for the birds. Besides what would I write?...that somebody was looking for an Italian type to play the ingenue in a film and I might do?"

"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother."