I want to go on until they have to shoot me.

Attention embarrasses me. I don`t like to be on display.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

There`s nothing more fun in the whole world than seeing a child open a present at Christmas. To have a six-year-old boy stroke a bicycle with his eyes and, not daring to touch, turn and ask, `Is it mine, Missy? Really mine?` That`s part of my future. The rest is work. And, I hope, some wisdom.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

I couldn`t remember my name for weeks. I`d be at the theater and hear them calling, `Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,` and I`d think, `Where is that dame? Why doesn`t she answer? By crickie, it`s me!`

It`s perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it`s possible to make a success of both marriage and career, even though I didn`t. But it`s not a bad future. And I`m not afraid of it.

Commenting in 1939 on the fact that her fiancé, Robert Taylor, at 28, was four years younger than she, which raised eyebrows then, Stanwyck said: "The boy`s got a lot to learn and I`ve got a lot to teach."

"My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth."

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don`t care what happened before. I don`t even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I`ll take it in those fifteen minutes.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure, it`s nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

"I`m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I`m ninety and they won`t need to paste my face with make-up."

During Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray would go to rushes. I remember asking Fred, `How was I?` `I don`t know about you, but I was wonderful!` Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.