For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?

I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

Style, I've got no style.

This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.

I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.