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.

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.

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.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

You deserve someone who will feel you at her side without needing to see you. And I've only felt that way about one boy.

Then again, I had become a disappointment. It’s easier to find fault with a disappointment.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.