My life has been a series of emergencies.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

I`m so gullible. I`m so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

The truth is, sex doesn`t mean that much to me now.

It`s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you`ll have to work with them.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

The truth is, sex doesn`t mean that much to me now. It never did, really. It was romance I wanted, kisses and candlelight, that sort of thing. I never did dig sex very much.

"The thing about happiness is that it doesn`t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I`m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I`ve had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me."

"I liked the boys and the boys liked me."

"Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I`m not something you get rid of."

"I`ve always loved a challenge."

"Humor has been the balm of my life, but it`s been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana."

"I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around."

[On Hollywood] "It was all beauty and it was all talent, and if you had it they protected you."

"She`s not Madame X; she`s brand X; she`s not an actress, she`s a commodity." -- Pauline Kael, movie critic

"I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn`t is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint."

"A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man." - Lana Turner

"She was amoral. If she saw a stagehand with tight pants and a muscular build, she`d invite him into her dressing room." - An M-G-M executive