FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught.

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.