"I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much." "I feel positively like a Beatle, " Joan Bennett in response to the attention she was getting with the success of Dark Shadows. 'My film career faded. A man can go on playing certain roles till he's sixty. But not a woman' 'The golden age is gone, and with it most of the people of great taste. It doesn't seem to be any fun any more' (1984) [on Hollywood attorney Jerry Giesler] "Whenever trouble arose in Hollywood, the first cry for legal help was, 'Get Giesler!'." "Meryl Streep can act Polish or English or Australian but she sure as hell can't act blonde."