Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did.

Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.

What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything.

Have we freed this man or cursed him?" he wondered aloud."Freedom is never a curse, brother, " Thirty-four insisted. "But it is often a hard road.

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Conscience is wiser than science.

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

Things from the heart don't have an explanation.