I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

One must take what comes, with laughter.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.

My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.

I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.