Talk:Claudette Colbert

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• 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.

• 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?

• I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

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

• I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy-period.

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

• If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

• It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

• It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

• Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

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

• You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.