An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy life.

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

You don't have to be rich to be healthy. That's such a misconception.

My house is the red earth . . . .

Don't animate drawings, animate feelings.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.