Zsa Zsa Gabor

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

My most favorite joke is that to keep a marriage, the husband should have a night out with the boys and the wife should have a night out with the boys, too.

My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Of course, chicks keep popping up. When you’re in a hotel, a pretty young lady makes life bearable.

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don’t waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy… people who don’t have no food… Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

If I could trade places with anyone in the world it would be with someone who has lots of power like George Bush.

I think women are very powerful and I think we’re more powerful together than separate.

You know my heart couldn’t take it.

[On working with Woody Allen] That was a very surreal experience: I had studied the script right down to the punctuation marks, and then he would say ‘we’re not going to say what’s on the page, and you don’t really have to either, try to keep up.’

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

On the TV show that I just did, I worked with a female director called Ryan Case who is amazing. [But] it suddenly occurred to me on my second day of filming with her that I’ve been doing this since I was nine — so that’s like 19 years now — and she’s the first female director I’ve worked with on screen. And that is crazy. When I actually step back, that is an insane thing.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

I think I’m prone to panic.

When I go to see Iron Man 3, I’m not as enthralled as I was when I saw The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

I sometimes do worry that actors are people’s role models, you know. And doctors and teachers and people doing really important things just get paid nothing. And they put us on the cover of magazines. They should be our heroes. I find it all a bit dubious.