Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.

Rafe tugged her closer before she could trip over a gravestone. "Damn it, woman. Devil take your wagon! You fail to grasp the severity of this situation.

A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

Every triumph has to overcome the fear of tragedy.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Practice in tranquility.

Some people recognize me. I really like it.

You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!