I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.

I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

I want to be able to hump people's legs and have them do nothing about it.

My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.

I only cook when I'm in love.

I think I'm very old-fashioned.

I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.