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!

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.

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.

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.

The privileged, we’ll see time and again, are processed more by people, the masses by machines.

If people are not in the process of production, they don’t deserve anything.

maybe i am doing right, maybe i am doing wrong but at least i'm trying

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.