For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood..."

One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!

The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.