I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life.

When our fears collided so did our souls.

We are the product of our thinking, so it is important that we choose carefully where to focus our mental energy.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.

No ideas but in things.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.