Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

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!

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

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.

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.

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.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

You may abuse your energy when you do not know what it is meant to help you carry. An undiscovered self is an easy way to rob the world of leadership impacts.

Life is too short not to show your truest form EVERY day... Live it, Like it, Love it and then push for more ~~

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.