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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.

Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

I'm nice, and I show up on time.

I won't date a model, because models are perfect and perfect is boring.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.