"I'd come home and she would start teaching. I wasn't walking right, I wasn't breathing deeply, or I entered the kitchen all wrong, my voice was too high. She never did anything but teach, teach, teach!" (Josephine Dillon)

"She taught me timing. That's all I remember." (Josephine Dillon)

"Ria is a women who has been about, she knows the world and life and how to handle men. She has never been on the set with me once. How about that for a good wife?" (Ria Langham)

"She is...a very self-sufficient woman, which is very important in the making of a successful 'movie marriage.' She has her own interests, her own friends, she has her bridge clubs and parties and children and our home. She doesn't seize hold of my life with idle, and therefore morbidly curious hands. When I come home at night and am too tired to talk about the studio or what I've been doing I don't have to. Ria doesn't care. these are dozens of other things, vitally important, to talk about. On the other hand, if I do fell like talking about what has been going on, she is as keen about it as I am, and knows as much. If I want advice, I can get it." (Ria Langham)

"You can trust that little screwball with your life or your hopes or your weaknesses, and she wouldn't even know how to think about letting you down. She's more fun than anybody, but she'll take a poke at you if you have it coming and make you like it. If that adds up to love, then I love her." (Carole Lombard)

"Yes, I've been known to like ladies...and I do. But with her, it's different. Everything about her is different than with any other gal." (Carole Lombard)

 "It was a perfect thing. I never expect to find it again." (on his marriage to Carole Lombard)

"Did you ever seen anyone more beautiful? There was never a person in this world who was so generous, so full of fun. God damn it, why Ma?"(Carole Lombard)

"I saw so much in the way of death and destruction that I realized that I hadn't been singled out for grief--that others were suffering and losing their loved ones just as I lost Ma." (after returning from war, about Carole Lombard)

"Sometimes I wonder how she'd take things the way they are today, and I always come up with the same answer--with a laugh. She'd get through it better than me." (Carole Lombard)

"She could be good company. Syl is just the social type, which I am afraid I'm not." (Sylvia Ashley)

"Sylvia's a good woman. It's a shame it didn't work out." (Sylvia Ashley)

"That gal has spunk!" (Kay Williams)

"I'm a very happy man. What can I say about Kay. She's a wonderful woman and a perfect companion." (Kay Williams)

"Old Kathleen has an awful lot of remarkable stuff in her. A lot of good plain horse sense. She can do anything." (Kay Williams)