- [on reaching her centenary] "Who wants to be 100?"
- [speaking at age 100] "I wouldn't mind being dead - it would be something new."
- I don't want to remember yesterday! It's all I can do to remember today!
- On appearing in the Mel Brooks classic The Producers (1967): "Oh, that dreadful picture. I can't bear to watch it, even on a small television. I must have needed the money - living in Hollywood weakens one's motives. It reminds me of the saying that nobody ever went broke underestimating the American public's taste".
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